12. Offensive and disagreeable speech is still free speech and we must defend it
Edited on Sun Sep-12-10 11:54 PM by The Northerner
or else we shred the meaning of the 1st Amendment and become a country of selective free speech.
In the words of Beatrice Hall (thought wrongly attributed to Voltaire): "I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it what it."
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