You misunderstand. Them yelling isn't rejecting the principle of freedom of speech - its literally exercising their freedom of speech. We can both be like "ugh that's bullshit that they're doing that." and I agree, it is. Doesn't mean it's some how anti freedom of speech.
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No - she was invited by people who wanted to hear her speak, to listen to her ideas; they prevented that. That's "freedom of speech" in the same way pulling the fire alarm would've been - different means, same end; to stop CHS speaking.
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It is obviously contradictory to claim the sanction of a right, in order to violate another's rights. So can we commit murders as part of religious rituals, because we claim human sacrifices are part of our religion, and so protected under "freedom of religion"? If not, why not?
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I think this is an easy question to answer, but sadly I think many people are now so insane, that they would try to explain why they should be able to commit human sacrifices as part of their religion (just as they try to justify shouting others down as "free speech") .
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The quip about the right to swing your arm ending where another person's nose begins comes to mind there. Or, as Geoffrey Robertson put it in his model Aussie Charter of Rights in "The Statute of Liberty" -pic.twitter.com/LrWVD8iWy5
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