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One of the strongest arguments for free speech is the practical impossibility of knowing which views are and aren't correct.

Another is the fact that pretty much every apparatus ever erected for the enforcement of "correct views" has ultimately been corrupted and abused.




Free speech entitles you to speak your mind. It doesn't entitle you to be free from dislike and rebuke for the things you say.


Who says it does? But I myself won't dislike and rebuke people simply for disagreeing with me.


It's ridiculous to call "spending millions funding bigotry" as a matter of simple "disagreement."


So your respect for someone's right to a differing opinion stops at the point you regard them as "bigoted." And any third party disagreeing with you about that person's right to their opinion, they're wrong too.

What could possibly go wrong?




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