I actually want to talk about this article a bunch because it is exceptionally important.https://twitter.com/waldojaquith/status/1002157697188483072?s=19 …
Lead Data Scientist, activist, survivor. Was actually assaulted by an actual right-wing terrorist. Opinions belong only to me, especially the bad ones. she/they
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Emily G Retweeted Waldo Jaquith
I actually want to talk about this article a bunch because it is exceptionally important.https://twitter.com/waldojaquith/status/1002157697188483072?s=19 …
Emily G added,
This has been the big, loud drum free speech advocates have banged for years. And yet, let's actually think about the realities, not the theoreticals.pic.twitter.com/U5l1r73wzy
The thing about that point is I'm not sure it's true at all, even remotely. Are BLM activists currently feeling the same protections given to neo-Nazis? Antifascists? Environmental activists? The answer is a resounding no.
"We can't stop Nazis because if we do they'll go after Black activists!"
Black activists: 




There's a lot of fretting that a thing might happen. Except that thing is already happening at scale, so..... Maybe we ought to rethink our fears about that thing.
We already have laws that specifically protect marginalized populations. Those laws haven't really been distorted to be used against those populations in any broadly meaningful way, although there have been and are currently attempts to do so (e.g. Damore).
Why should we treat speech laws any differently? We shouldn't, but we do, because the country is built on a founding myth, and American free speech concepts are that myth writ large.
Furthermore, the idea that free speech is an antidote to tyrrany is laughable. Look around. ICE. Pipelines. Trump. There's a lot of fucking tyrrany out there, how's speech working out stopping it? We can't even get the New York Times to say the word "lie."
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.
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