> Yea maybe that's the start of free speech going back to the left, but for the past few years, it's been clearly a right wing thing. I just don't buy this. Th

> Yea maybe that's the start of free speech going back to the left, but for the past few years, it's been clearly a right wing thing. I just don't buy this. The main way that the left has "suppressed" free speech has been to enforce the social more that if you say shitty things, you can expect shitty responses. "I can't call black people the n-word without people getting angry with me" has been a criticism since we collectively decided that the n-word was a slur, and it was never a freedom-of-speech issue, just a polite society thing. I do have clear memories of people ranting about free-speech vis a vis "political correctness" during the Clinton years, and it was just as specious. Literally the only difference is that, unlike the 1940s, the subject of slurs actually have some power to socially punish those who use them.