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TygrBright
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TygrBright's Journal
May 4, 2015
Can We Stop Saying "Pam Geller Has Free Speech?"
What she has, is Constitutionally protected speech.
Hate speech carries a heavy, terrible, sometimes generations-long, price tag.
It is not, and never has been "free."
Someone always pays for it.
Usually innocents.
Constitutionally-protected speech, used to urge the denial of life, rights, and equity to others, has nothing to do with "freedom," so it's not "free" that way, either.
I'm willing to concede hate speech its Constitutional protection.
I am not willing to miscall it "free" in any way.
That is all.
obstinately,
Bright
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