[MtnClimber]

Free speech, but only for the leftists.

[dfwgator]

That’s what they wanted you to think.

[Red Badger]

Only for their own.

Yours, not so much.................

[Leaning Right]

It’s worse than just that. Many “progressives” are not satisfied by just preventing you from speaking freely. You must go further, and agree with everything they say. Your silence on an issue is itself a violent act.

And yes, you can buy a shirt to proudly display your fascist thinking.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

No, the Democrats were not champions of free speech, unless you were White.

It took almost 200 years before the Democrats allowed Negroes to practice their civil rights.

[Dan in Wichita]

When I was in high school back in the 1970s, there were left-leaning “smart kids” wearing the “Question Authority” buttons. They were free speech advocates then. Today, they probably label any free speech they disagree with as “misinformation.”

[DeplorablePaul]

The Free Speech movement began at Berkeley with student protests in 1964-65. Their basic demand was that communist teachers are protected by the First Amendment. Now that communists are in power, free speech is what they say it is.

[ansel12]

Not at all, they have always tightly controlled speech to make everything variations of liberalism, people who remember the beginning of PBS saw that and were disappointed in the 60s to learn that the govt. station started by the democrats was going to be so controlled.

A conservative Ted Turner rejected as the buyer for CBS, libraries with their annual box of “censored books” but if you suggested other books the left didn’t like, the library would not accept them, the Fairness Doctrine was a perfect example, free speech law that yet again kept out challenges to the left.

[detective]

“Weren't the Democrats Champions of Free Speech?” No. They never were. The Democrats just parrotted the Communist Party talking points and then said that anyone opposed them was opposed to free speech. The Democrats always supported censorship and ridicule for others.

[marktwain]

The Democrats were champions of free speech when 95% of the media was controlled by Progressives.

When the Left no longer could control the narrative, they no longer were in favor of free speech.

Now the Left's vision of "free speech" is: Your speech is violence. My violence is speech.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Then child killing came and they cannot stand the truth.

You cannot be rabid feminist and pro-life. Not the wsy God made woman.

[Ex-Con777]

This works because the democrat party has nurtured two main constituencies, the lower IQ ignorant and the young. One cannot reason why something is wrong and the other has no historic reference to know why something is wrong.

This is not hypocrisy, it’s a game plan.

EC

[antidemoncrat]

The Democrats used to be champions of the working class until they found out they could make many more $$$$ becoming servants of the elites.

[BenLurkin]

No.

[TBP]

No, they paid lip service, but they never actually believed in free speech. This goes back at least to Woodrow Wilson.

[fuzzylogic]

They are not liberals. They are not ‘classical’ liberals.

They are LEFTISTS. When does the left go too far?

To them...THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS, BY ANY MEANS NECCESSARY. They would kill, imprison, spit on, etc., to anyone they don’t like. They are savages with an inner tyrant bursting to get loose.

[PIF]

Weren’t Democrats Once the Champions of Free Speech?

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Yes, and they still are, as long as you agree with them. All other speech is disinformation, misinformation or propaganda.

[glennaro]

Well, they said they were ... just like Democrat/Communists say they're "saving democracy". All lies ... nothing but lies ... but, then again, they are democrat/communists.

[Organic Panic]

No. Never have been and never will be.