Protesters are expressing their right to free speech. They should not be burning down buildings, looting, or attacking the capitol. These things should end in your arrest. The Republican attempt to shutdown any investigation to the January 6 attack on the capitol is yet another attack of free speech by government officials. This is bad news for ANYBODY looking to protect free speech in this country. Republicans attempting to rewrite what happened by calling it "just another tourist day at the capitol" are truly anti-free speech and enemies of our country.
The only attack on free speech that is truly dangerous is an attack by our government and the only people in government I see attacking free speech are Republicans at every level, local, state, and federal. This is the attack that we should be most concerned with because under Trump and post Trump it was greatly accelerated and at the moment they don't seem at all to want to put the brakes on that.
I am with you guys that some woke folk can be annoying but they are not making any dent in our ability to speak our minds. In fact what they do most of the time is annoy far more people into exorcising their right to free speech than silencing anybody.
If we are going to address the attack on free speech, we need to go hard at who is actually attacking it and where we are at risk. This is entirely from the Right. The Right wing media is an abomination in terms of free speech and their attack on it and Right wings politicians are going hard to eliminate all voices that do not support them. This is and will remain our greatest free speech concern until they are stopped.
The Right adopted a position on the destruction of free speech which is simply this, a lie is not a lie IF you claim to believe that lie. This is essentially a legal defense in their war on free speech. They use it over and over. FOX news, Roger Stone and his minions, idiots like Sidney Powell, Rudy, the whole corrupt Trump team...all have and will continue to make this claim in court.
I don't care how many left wingers want to talk about gender issues, what pronoun someone should be called or not called, what sort of racial stuff you can or can't express in their building, or on their platform, or if baseball stadiums won't admit you if you try to walk through the turnstile with a shirt on that says "I hate Jews" or "Black People Suck" none of that makes any dent in what Republicans have been engaged in for the last 40 years and particularly for the last decade.
If we are going to have a free speech problem in this country, the right is going to cause it. There is no question about that. The 51% of Republican voters that openly say they think Trump should be reinstated as president are going to march free speech over a cliff and the Republican party is doing all they can to prod them into doing so.
Solve that problem and you solve any free speech issue that may arise.
