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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This doesn't sound like the behaviour of an absolutism tbh.
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Absolute free speech is a recursive (self-referential) logical concept and therefore impossible to define.
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Amd aware that to defend those who are against free speech is suicidal.
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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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"always"?
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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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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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What about Chomsky?
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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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Correcting that error requires exactly what I'm calling for: self-correction and reflexiveness.
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