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    1. 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
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      2. Milton's Areopagitica is considered a foundational text in free speech advocacy yet makes a huge exception: no free speech for Catholics

      13 replies 32 retweets 190 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      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"

      7 replies 36 retweets 177 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Aug 2017
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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

      12 replies 38 retweets 163 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Aug 2017
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      5. Mill's opposition to free speech for non-whites was not merely theoretical. At East India company he worked to limit freedom in India.pic.twitter.com/ccXghEdMOm

      10 replies 46 retweets 180 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Aug 2017
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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

      10 replies 41 retweets 185 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Aug 2017
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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

      11 replies 29 retweets 229 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Aug 2017

      8. I would like to see a free-speech absolutism that is reflexive, aware of its own privileged history & complicity with elitism.

      6:41 PM - 23 Aug 2017
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      • the 🌒 dude 🍞🌹 Normal Man The Bike Mayor of the Lumpenproletariat كاحسخ CB 👻 the british press 👻 David Lambert Jarod Karl Appuhn is Tweeting. Someone please stop him. You wouldn't donk a car.
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        1. Harbord Playground‏ @McArthurMooney 23 Aug 2017
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          This doesn't sound like the behaviour of an absolutism tbh.

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        1. rick baartman‏ @krabkrabkrab 23 Aug 2017
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          Absolute free speech is a recursive (self-referential) logical concept and therefore impossible to define.

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        1. Daniel Samanez‏ @DanielSamanez 23 Aug 2017
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          Amd aware that to defend those who are against free speech is suicidal.

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        1. Telly Davidson‏ @TellyDavidson 23 Aug 2017
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          +1. "Free speech" battles, esp in the US, are really about *balance of power* between groups. And they're fought with coded dog whistles

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        1. That Fuzzy Bastard‏ @thefuzzybastard 23 Aug 2017
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          "always"?

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        1. Finbad the Failer‏ @bruminger 23 Aug 2017
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          Where are the free speech warriors as black men have their rap lyrics used against them as evidence in murder trials

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        1. Akilesh Ayyar‏ @AkileshAyyar 23 Aug 2017
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          Your examples only show that free speech absolutisms weren't actually absolute, rather than that absolutism itself was truly complicit, etc.

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        1. eaglesrule8‏ @eaglesrule88 23 Aug 2017
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          @DonEWoods1

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        1. “weird al” yanukovych‏ @marxofsuburbia 23 Aug 2017
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          What about Chomsky?

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        2. Mona Holland‏ @MonaHol 23 Aug 2017
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          ACLU did complete reversal of purging Communists & defended their speech rights.Their error proves only even they got caught in the hsyteria

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Aug 2017
          Replying to @MonaHol

          Correcting that error requires exactly what I'm calling for: self-correction and reflexiveness.

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