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. Milton's Areopagitica is considered a foundational text in free speech advocacy yet makes a huge exception: no free speech for Catholics
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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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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
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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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Really? Do you have a source here? I have never seen evidence to support this claim. I like rest of argument, but this rings wrong.
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I'll have to look up source but it was in a standard history of ACLU
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