[HN Gopher] Princetonians for Free Speech
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Princetonians for Free Speech
Author : undefined1
Score : 14 points
Date : 2021-03-30 18:32 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| gedy wrote:
| I really wonder what happened. I'm old enough to remember how
| freedom of speech was used to defend saying things the majority
| of society did not support (mostly left leaning topics, but also
| things like rap music lyrics).
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| Was that really supportive of "freedom of speech"? Or was that
| just used as a justification because they thought they were
| correct, but would have suppressed "wrong" speech they didn't
| believe in either?
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| The current times strike me how the support for free speech has
| withered in its former bastions.
| glenda wrote:
| Another issue I've noticed is that many people have taken
| freedom of speech to mean "everyone needs to listen to what I
| say"
| uniqueid wrote:
| Well, 40 years ago, where I lived at any rate, a regular person
| encountered propaganda from hate groups pretty much _never_. I
| believe in the 80s the entirety of my exposure was: finding a
| Nazi pamphlet some weirdo left on a bus seat, a half dozen talk
| show episodes with Klansmen, and hearing a racist punk song by
| a skinhead band. That 's it for the entire decade.
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| So back on the 80s, when the ACLU stuck up for NeoNazis etc, in
| the name of free speech, it was a no-brainer to support it on
| principle.
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| I guess my dedication to free-speech was always unconsciously
| predicated on it not turning my country into a fascist state
| full of 'race-realists' and right-wing extremists.
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