Wow!
Just how did so many ignorant people get into responsible positions?
The right of free speech is not there to protect speech we agree with, but protect speech we may find offensive.
The reason there are few restrictions on “free speech” (and there should be even fewer) is once you allow the government to decide what is and what is not appropriate then you lost free speech altogether.
Affirmative Action
” once you allow the government to decide what is and what is not appropriate then you lost free speech altogether.”
This is very true.
Free speech is a Binary value. Either the first amendment is inviolate or it is non existent. The way I see it, we lost the first amendment long ago. And the rest of the constitution goes with it.
The social contract is broken. The broken remnants scattered on the floor are but to be swept away in some future crisis. Likely it will be borne of the godlessness carried in by the Marxist takeover of the governmental and educational infrastructure.
I’ll then pull from Winston Churchill
“
1) If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed;
2) if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly;
3) you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.
4) There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
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I’ll go out on a limb and suggest that we are at level 2 of the Churchillian societal collapse. Our Society and culture could still conceivably be rescued in a political manner. There is still time. But not much of that really; Maybe two or three more generations.
“You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.”
“1968 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The First Circle”