Perhaps it is unusual to comment on my own article, but as I read it here online, it occured to me that the Oliver Wendell Holmes quote contains an interesting word play: He wrote: "we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to -check- the expression of opinions that we loathe". His usage of "check" means "stop", as when a hockey player "checks" another player by blocking his path. We should not do that, but we should indeed fact-check not only "opinions that we loathe", but especially our own opinions as well.
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Robert StarlingAugust 29, 2023
Perhaps it is unusual to comment on my own article, but as I read it here online, it occured to me that the Oliver Wendell Holmes quote contains an interesting word play: He wrote: "we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to -check- the expression of opinions that we loathe". His usage of "check" means "stop", as when a hockey player "checks" another player by blocking his path. We should not do that, but we should indeed fact-check not only "opinions that we loathe", but especially our own opinions as well.
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