Elites push through things like 4A & make activation energy to ditch them too high, so we get Patriot Act. Guns is better understood as a pure tribal signal than a policy issue. Proponents can’t intelligently articulate the tradeoffs if you ask them, just parrot slogans.
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I think that's totally right, but also that there's a real thing there reasonable people can discuss in an intellectually honest way even if Fox News doesn't.
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Let’s not forget that there is asymmetry in the power of some forms of speech, ie speed of lies vs. truth. There’s a reason Germany bans Nazi speech: they discovered the hard way that responding to some forms of speech with more speech was insufficient.
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You may disagree because they don't fit the narrative, but there is a strong-streak of anti-free speech on the left, especially in universities; the speech is violence crowd. Haidt (no reactionary) has written extensively on this, and this week at Sarah Lawrence another example.
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