How is this different from having “inappropriate” books in your book shelf?
Thank you.
We're not talking about people who have a thousand books from all genres and walks of life having Mein Kampf in there.
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/michael-gove-an...
Edit: I, too, have one book by David Irving in my bookcase - among 900 others. I read it, I found his way of twisting of the sources disturbing, but I am not going to burn it in the name of Love and Peace. But unfortunately I can see this being used against me in a court of Twitter.
I've seen people in more prominent positions than me being badly burned by a 10 year old tweet. I see no point in saving stuff I've said 6 months or a year ago. If it's something worthwhile, I'll make a blog post out of it and store the markdown file in git.
People are pretty good at ignoring quackery in their own family. I think most people have a few relatives who are very much outside whatever the family norms are that are still treated with respect.
This question is particularly apropos in modern times -- take the last week for example.
To ask the question in a different way: There may be a tradeoff between maintaining the status quo versus speaking about our values.
To me, it is really important to strive to speak and act according to our values _and_ to reflect on who (and what ideas) benefit from the status quo. It is entirely reasonable to be strategic about what you say, but I don't pretend to think the status quo is correct just because it exists.