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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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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4. By "human beings in the maturity of their faculties" Mill meant white people. He didn't believe most of humanity could handle free speech
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Then its not absolutism.
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True, for reasons similar to those cited for denying Communists free speech (and the alt-right in that recent oped).
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Well, we all have our blind spots, but if Milton's ideal were to cause pedophilia apologist Bill Donahue to shut the fuck up, I'm for it.
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Come on. None of those arguments mean anything because their based on an inherently racist document written by slave owners.
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That they personally don't live up to their own arguments is irrelevant. The arguments in favour of FS transcends their personal prejudice.
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It just means some people are hypocrites.
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In other words, he wasn't a free speech absolutist. A restrictionist instead. Clearly bad idea, we should support free speech for everyone
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Areopagitica is only an argument against prior restraint, not in favor of freedom from ex post punishment for speech deemed bad.
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