Yes well it does rather complicate things when the first amendment is explicitly adopted as a rallying cry by fascist bent on murder
https://twitter.com/harrysiegel/status/1401641935484432389
What I hate about this piece is that there is zero attempt to reckon with the idea that the political context and tradeoffs of free speech absolutism have changed, and that this might raise thorny questions with no easy answers. Instead it’s just holier-than-thou lecturing
And the people doing the lecturing? Invariably? White men, completely insulated from the potentially mortal consequences of playing into the hands of people like the Charlottesville marchers, and whose views on the issue haven't evolved one iota since college, I'm sure
Free speech questions are genuinely DIFFICULT right now, and when I say difficult, I mean "the correct answers are hard to figure out," not "the correct answer is obvious and you should posture over your courageous willingness to defend Nazis, for which your peers applaud you"
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