Reply #28: duh, eh?? [View All]

You know what kills me?

When one *does* criticize someone whose speech one objects to, one is the one in the wrong then too.

I'll criticize Clear Channel from here til next Tuesday (although not for canning Howard Stern).

I'll also criticize sidewalk stalkers screaming filth at women outside abortion clinics, DU members who call abortion "genocide", people here or elsewhere who say disgusting things about members of the GLBT community (and hide behind "religion") ... and you can bet the rent that at least one person will crawl out of somewhere and denounce me for trying to suppress free speech when I do.

And somehow, *I'm* the one who was accused in this thread of defending only the deserving. ;)

So many people seem to forget the "I disapprove of what you say" bit of that "... but I'll defend to the death your right to say it" business. I'll do that -- but I'll also step up to the plate and act like a person who cares, and exercise my own freedom of speech by expressing that disapproval.

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