• PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com
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    8 months ago

    Are you implying that only speech that results in someone being thrown in jail should be defended or something?

    I don’t get how that question makes a lick o’ sense, especially since free speech absolutists defend harmful, hateful rhetoric that also doesn’t get anyone thrown in jail, just pisses a lot of people off. It’s not like people go to jail for misgendering trans people or participating in an insurrection.

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      8 months ago

      Then I don’t understand your point. If nobody is punished for their speech then they have free speech.

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        8 months ago

        The question was defending their right to express the opinion, not government persecution. Also, good job of ignoring 90% of the original comment.