Sorry, you are looking in the rear-view mirror with rose-coloured glasses. George Carlin went to the supreme court arguing for the right to tell dirty jokes on

Sorry, you are looking in the rear-view mirror with rose-coloured glasses. George Carlin went to the supreme court arguing for the right to tell dirty jokes on television. He lost. Before that, MLK told America uncomfortable truths. He was considered a dangerous threat to America and eventually assassinated. Athletes who raised fists or kneeled have been ostracized, whether in 1968 or 2018, fifty years later. This idea of absolute freedom of speech is something that has only ever been for privileged people, people who have tenure, or powerful interests protecting them. Everyone else has had to suffer the consequences, up to and including losing their lives. And this is not some nee phenomenon foisted upon America by SJWs in the 2010s and moralizing Christians in the 1980s. It has always been a place where there is one rule for the powerful, and another rule for the oppressed.