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I can remember a time when kids were getting their heads bashed in because they stood up for “free speech.” Today, people are getting roasted and banned on the internet for the same thing, except this time, the ideological soulmates of the kids who got clubbed are doing the roasting.
It’sanotheroneoflife’slittleironiesthatthechildrenandgrandchildrenofthosewhosupportedfreedomofspeechnowenthusiasticallystifleit.Theythinkthatsomespeechtheydisagreewithcanbeclassifiedas“hatespeech”becauseofthesubjectmatterorpeoplebeingtargeted.
Thisbringstotheforetherevolutionaryconceptthat“freespeech”canbedirty,hateful,hurtful,wrong-headed,obscene,insulting,evenracist,homophobic,Islamophobic,andCatholicphobic.
Tosumup,freespeechis,well,FREEFRICKINGSPEECH.It’snotpretty.It’snotpolite.Itmighthurtyourfeelings.Itmightcauseyourbloodtoboil.Butthat’swhatfreedomis,andthemoronsontheleftwhoinsistthattheFirstAmendmenttotheU.S.Constitutiondoesn’treallymeanwhatitsaysneedtochecktheirignoran
