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So essentially "Here is an arbitrary selection of evil in the pre-CRA'64 south." With such a long list of shameful events I guess I was expecting "This event

• makomk 13y ago
  It's relevant in the sense it demonstrates who benefits and loses out as the result of this narrow view of "free speech". Taking "free speech" to mean only freedom from government restrictions and and making it the norm not to criticise non-government restrictions on speech benefits the powerful at the expense of the less powerful. Constitutionally, those African Americans had just as much right to carry out economic retaliation against racists as vice-versa, but in practice they were in no position to do so. This doesn't just apply to evil in the pre-CRA south either. A less dramatic example of this is online feminist communities - all the popular ones have systematically excluded women of colour, trans women, etc, often deleting any criticism of the fact they've done so. (This is also why the hover text is frankly offensive. It doesn't matter how good your arguments are if no-one hears them - many did have arguments other than "free speech", but as far as the rest of the community knew they didn't because the community owners said they didn't.) It took until the rise of so-called "Twitter feminism" that wasn't controlled by a particular community owner before those women could get their voices heard online, and even now I think there's some pressure on Twitter to shut them up again.