Milton & Locke thought Catholics didn't deserve free speech. Mill thought "immature" (i.e. non whites & working class) didn't deserve free speech. So this is completely wrong on classical liberal position.https://twitter.com/JonathanMerritt/status/962446842062663681 …
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It’s a Post ww2 thing even right?
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It's post 1960s Warren Court stuff. Also *not* dominant in most Democracies. Most Democracies ban incitement to racial hatred. I think free speech absolutism is a post 60s US thing (I don't think Heer has absolute free speech -- I live in Italy & I sure don't)
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Jeet, my sincere apologies. I came in late, and I came in already hot from reading about....... oh who fucking knows at this point. Sorry my friend!
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People who are nostalgic for "classical liberalism" are like people who are nostalgic for the 50s. They evoke a lost prelapsarian golden age that has the slight flaw of never having actually existed.
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I'm still not sure about Mill. The point is one can advocate free speech without advocating what we consider full freedom (which includes voting rights & such).
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