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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6. The ACLU of high modernist period often seen as advocate for absolute free speech. Yet it co-operated with FBI to inform on communists
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7. All of which is NOT an argument against free speech absolutism but rather a recognition that free speech absolutism needs self-critique
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Note that Mill cites Charlemagne: Just 1000 years earlier, even European whites weren't ready for free speech (*not* a defense of his view).
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Mill says "free speech should be restricted to people with property X" then adds, "Indians don't have property X". These are SEPARATE claims
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Mill's being wrong on the second point says nothing, nothing whatever, about the reasonableness of the first.
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I know you'll say it's inherent in liberalism, but why did all the great liberals have to be such poopheads?
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Very strong economic incentives to do so
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