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0xy • yesterday at 5:37 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Why are they opposing the mere rhetoric and not the ideas themselves? You either support free speech unreservedly, including for your political opposites, or you don't.


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simoncion • yesterday at 8:10 PM

> You either support free speech unreservedly, including for your political opposites, or you don't.

You've never heard statements such as "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."?

That is, you don't draw a real distinction between repeatedly, loudly, and publicly calling someone a cotton-headed slop-spouting pig to whom no one should pay any mind and actively working to ensure that said pig is prohibited from spouting its slop?