You can give yours to whom you like, I can give mine to whom I like. If you seem reasonable and can talk about your idea of how the world should be without maki

You can give yours to whom you like, I can give mine to whom I like. If you seem reasonable and can talk about your idea of how the world should be without making up things and putting down people, I might just do it. Karl Popper coind the term »paradox of intolerance«. A free society has (in order to remain free) to be intolerant towards intolerant people, otherwise those intolerant people will use the tolerance you give them to abolish the free society and therefore all tolerance. So e.g. I would not give my megaphone to any faction that issues death threats to all their political enemies, especially not if their political enemies are chosen by culture, gender, race, political stance alone. This in my eyes is not only a reasonable stance to take, but one that anybody who knows about the history of democracy around the world will find reasonable as well. No I can assure you that the enemies of the free society also wouldn't give their megaphone to anybody. They just won't be honest about why. They will make up reasons why it is always the person of color, the women, the kid, the gay person, etc. whose books they need to burn. So maybe as a liberal European I don't understand the whole US freedom of speech thing, but if one side decidesnot to give the megaphone to a screaming hateful holocaust denier and the other side literally sweeps school libraries to BURN BOOKS I don't have a hard time deciding which side is worse.