@cre8love4all and I did, right here, in this thread.
If you want to say we need to protect free speech, I think you need to have a coherent explanation of what you think the limits of it are, otherwise we’d just be talking in circles.
I have. I said the limits of free speech extend far beyond common decency and considerations for the feelings of others, despite the histrionic protestations and demands that such speech must be silenced. In a free society such as the one in which we live, we don’t deny someone the right to say something just because we don’t like it.
Silencing the polo-clad Spencer Youth does not make us somehow safer or better than them, nor do I follow the logic of supporting the First Amendment while simultaneously “denying hatemongers a public platform,” but, well, to each her own.
As an aside, I don’t appreciate the insinuations and accusations that I’m a trolley or a Nazi. As I’ve repeatedly stated, supporting someone’s right to free speech does not mean supporting the content of their speech. Insinuating that I support Nazis because I would allow them to spout their filth in public uses the same fallacies and character assassination in which the alt-right routinely engages.
