Learned this in grade school;
Sticks and stones
May break my bones
But words
Can never hurt me
Then in high school I learned;
“I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Then in the Hippie days we would say;
Freedom of speech, you either have it or you don’t.
That there is why I actually respect the old-school hippies. They were/are misguided, but they believe in freedom.