boburtle on Nostr: >but the whole point of free speech is to defend people and ideas you DON'T like. ...

>but the whole point of free speech is to defend people and ideas you DON'T like.

Free speech stems from the ethnoreligous conflicts that have brewed in Brittain for hundreds of years. It's a principle that emerged to diffuse tensions between Normans and Anglos or Protestants and Catholics. Basically free speech boils down to "we all believe in Christ as God and the Holy Trinity for the most part so lets not kill each other over the details." Saying free speech is when people simply respect the rights of others they don't like is similar to people who say the founding fathers created the second amendment so black lesbian Marijuana farmers can defend their property from Nazis with an AR15. In reality the founding fathers believed women were meant to be men's mommy bangmaids (based) and blacks were meant to be farm equipment (NOT based, cheap cotton is not worth 400 years of stolen bicycles). The second amendment was red meat to keep White yeomen from violently rebelling since private gun ownership was vital to warding off Indian raids in a country that was still mostly hinterlands

Free speech is a principle that emerged to create unity between White Christian groups. That White men are now expected to tolerate literal Satanism only shows that the sovereignty White Christians once had in the Anglosphere and Europe is now lost and free speech is effectively a dead idea weighing White Christians down by the neck. Getting fired from your job for saying "White Lives Matter" isn't considered a violation of free speech because muh private business can do what it wants, but public schools having crucifixes in the classroom is considered a violation of the freedom of non-Christians