Re: California valedictorian will no longer give graduation speech over 'alarming' discussion

"Stephen Boudreaux, MD" <doc_steve@quacks_of_jeanerette.con>
Newsgroups alt.education,alt.activism,talk.politics.guns,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,talk.politics.misc,alt.los-angeles
Organization Forte - www.forteinc.com
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4/17/2024 6:43 PM, Governor Swill wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:32:32 -0000 (UTC), John Simons <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 17 Apr 2024, Max Boot <[email protected]> posted
>>> This is speech that you want to be suppressed. The valedictorian is
>>> pro-Palestine, and you, with your knee-jerk pro-Israel stance, want
>>> people with her views to be prevented from speaking.
>>
>> Her position conflicts with the majority.
> 
> How is that relevant?  Free speech is free speech for everybody.  If it wasn't, you
> wouldn't be able to spew your hate speech here.

The only real value of a commitment to free speech is to protect and defend 
speech that is unpopular and counter-majoritarian. Speech with which large 
majorities agree doesn't need protection.

> 
>> Deport her and those who think
>> like her.  Send a dozen Democrat sympathizers with each.
> 
> See what I mean?

Exactly.
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