Freedom of Speech: A Right for Everybody, or Only for Like-Minded People?
From a meta standpoint, it&#x27;s interesting to me that the most vociferous deniers of free speech throughout history have made some version of the case &quot;But they&#x27;re wrong!&quot; (You can add stupid, evil, whatnot. The point is that whatever they&#x27;re saying, it should not be said because it is not correct)<p>Whereas folks supporting free speech have made the argument: maybe I&#x27;m wrong. I don&#x27;t know everything, and I&#x27;ve been wrong before. More concisely, looking back through history a lot of those times we got so upset about people saying various things, we were wrong. Those people changed all of us for the better. Unless we continue to humbly think we could continue to be wrong, we stop evolving. Cue curtain. There&#x27;s no way to have difficult societal discussions and fight for the moral and right thing for all of us if we&#x27;re constantly going to use current group consensus as a measure of what can be said or not. That&#x27;s not progress. That&#x27;s a popularity contest.