I actually want to talk about this article a bunch because it is exceptionally important.https://twitter.com/waldojaquith/status/1002157697188483072?s=19 …
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The issue is we've focused on free speech as a concept instead of the thing that free speech was supposed to protect. In this sense, the ACLU is doing *precisely* the thing that they have been warning about.
I agree with your broader point that there's more value in defending the rights of BLM activists who aren't receiving the same protections today, but not this point that the present day demonstrates that free speech doesn't combat tyranny.
It's not a panacea, but we'd definitely be in a vastly worse place if (e.g) BLM or DAPL activists didn't have the legal right to protest the way they do (or even if activists like you were constrained in the same way they are in most other countries around the world!)
The problem is that free speech is sometimes treated as a forcing function for driving towards progress, whereas it's "just" a forcing function for driving society towards where people at large already are more quickly and effectively.
The answer to failures to equitably protect free expression is not to abandon free expression, any more than the answer to failures to equitably protect suffrage is to abandon suffrage as a value . The answer is to aspire to do better. The answer is to move forward, not backward.
I exercise, but I'm still fat. I should stop exercising.
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