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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"absolutism" means "this is where I stop thinking about things," and is always a dangerous term.
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Sounds like a lot of "strict constructionists"
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8. I would like to see a free-speech absolutism that is reflexive, aware of its own privileged history & complicity with elitism.
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This doesn't sound like the behaviour of an absolutism tbh.
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It's never absolute, but "maximal in relation to fundamental threats to the common good," and the definition of that changes over time.
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Yes, "free speech absolutism" is a straw man. Find me someone who things slander, death threats, and perjury are all protected.
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The trick, then, is to minimize the number of things held to be threatening. Which is another good reason to resist Trump's fear-mongering.
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This is nothing more than ad hominem, all of which strengthens the argument FOR free speech to protect the marginalized.
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.... "this ideology has always helped the powerful" sounds like an argument against it to me.
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The theoretical idea you describe might be cool but sounds v unlikely to happen. Anti elite projects typically describe themselves as such
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