Icon Re: The consequences of 'free speech' ....
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rosskolnikov (view)

"Overzealous commentators with their captive audiences can gnaw into a listener's sore spot and galvanize that listener into an eggregious act no commentator would commit himself, regardless of the intent laced into his language." ------------ Oh, like campus environmental zealots who co-opt kids into joining Earth Liberation Front and burning things to the ground in the name of preservation?

I think you're right, by the way, but political protest speech really can't be silenced just because of the actions of some wingnuts. I don't feel the O'Reilly comments rose the level of shouting fire in a crowded theater. But I get the comparison.
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posted 2009.06.05
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