"Why won't you debate my IDEAS?"
"Because they're bad ideas."
"But ideas should be allowed to succeed or fail on their merits."
"Yes. We heard your ideas and they had no merit. We think they're bad ideas. Your bad ideas failed."
"Ah, what I meant was, my ideas should only be allowed to succeed."
@JuliusGoat "Freedom of speech!"
"Okay, let me tell you why your ideas are ahistorical and unjust, and also don't work when applied to a pluralistic society, and..."
"So you want to cancel me now?"
"I'm responding to your speech with my own."
"No, *I* have freedom to speak, and also freedom to silence you, because this is a FREE country!"