2. Milton's Areopagitica is considered a foundational text in free speech advocacy yet makes a huge exception: no free speech for Catholics
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3. Similarly John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1859) is an argument only for free speech for "human beings in the maturity of their faculties"
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Wut? Nazis are elites?
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Ah, yes, those "elites" that
@TheFIREorg always defends. Those "elites" in the American Nazi Party.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Presbyterians in Milton's time were arguably marginalized by episcopacy (until they weren't).
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The interesting thing about red cars is that they are blue.
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"always" is a bit much there. And that's an issue with its application, not the principle.
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Your argument is that the ACLU does not defend marginal groups' free speech rights when exercised against elites?
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Because elites have unfair access to legal protection for speech enforcing arbitrary limitations on speech for everyone will create parity?
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Oh good, been thinking about this, so will share tangental thoughts here... ok so everyone agrees that there's no absolute right already...
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Meaning: no one says that you can use speech to directly incite violence or cheat a customer with lies or plan a criminal conspiracy
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