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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Aug 2017

    1. The interesting thing about free speech absolutism is that it's always been highly selective, defending elites against marginal groups.

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Aug 2017
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        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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Aug 2017
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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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      1.  🇵🇸 Free Palestine  🇵🇸‏ @BookCd 23 Aug 2017
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        Wut? Nazis are elites?

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      1. sweatingbanshee‏ @sweatingbanshee 23 Aug 2017
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        Ah, yes, those "elites" that @TheFIREorg always defends. Those "elites" in the American Nazi Party.

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      1. Michael McGough‏ @MichaelMcGough3 23 Aug 2017
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        Presbyterians in Milton's time were arguably marginalized by episcopacy (until they weren't).

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      1. Catflasher‏ @catflasher 23 Aug 2017
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        The interesting thing about red cars is that they are blue.

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      1. Matthew Crossin‏ @MattCrossin 23 Aug 2017
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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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      1. PJA‏ @PJA9 23 Aug 2017
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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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      1. Culpability Jones‏ @ShineboxHukster 23 Aug 2017
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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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      2. Jody Shenn‏ @JodyShenn 23 Aug 2017
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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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      3. Jody Shenn‏ @JodyShenn 23 Aug 2017
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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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