Again: this is an elite freak-out over people exercising their free speech rights in perfectly reasonably, peaceful ways.https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1523877267264487426 …
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However flawed & limited USA democracy has been, it's long had one great silver lining: robust free speech culture & right to organize & protest. The pushback against protesting at this moment would deny even that, which makes all the other democratic regressions even worse.
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In retrospect, the mass movements of the Trump era, peaking with the George Floyd protests, freaked out elites (not just the GOP). What we've seen since has been attempt to put the genie back in the bottle.
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After all, protests primarily intended to discourage patients from seeking medical care have been going on for decades. If patients are fair game, public officials must be.
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Old enough to remember when those in power had a freak-out when someone yelled at Mitch McConnel in a restaurant.
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I'm still curious what Senator Collins and others would be saying if those defending abortion rights appealed to people to use their second amendment rights. Somehow, I don't think it would be taken as a joke as it is in other contexts.
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It's also never said in jest, though they like to frame it as such.
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SCOTUS ruled that having a buffer zone to protect people going to health clinics that provide abortion was against
#1A right to free speech. They understand the right to protest in some places, however ugly those protests may be.https://bit.ly/3L7ROIMThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Not to mention, you can be passionately 100% against abortion and still support Roe v Wade.
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