I routinely hear free speech absolutists argue in favour of protecting the “right” of Nazis, white nationalists and Klansmen to organise and advertise their ideas.
Why do I never hear these people standing up for the rights of al-Qaeda or ISIS supporters? For nearly twenty years now, any vaguely supportive mention of those groups will rapidly attract the full and hostile attention of the US state. Speech and assembly are criminalised and actively persecuted.
So, which is it? Are free speech rights absolute for all people, or are they only for those who focus their malice on Black people?
If terroristic violence is sufficient to justify the suppression of al-Qaeda [1], why would the same argument not apply to the Klan?
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[1] And it is.
