For the record, in the 1980s I started a campus liberal organization that eventually went nation wide. The Progressive Student Network.  Our positions were totally in favor of free speech and totally defending &quot;offensive speech&quot; in particular.<p>One thing todays liberals don&#x27;t seem to get is that marginalized people are the ones who get silenced when free speech isn&#x27;t protected.<p>I never thought I would say this, but without Jesse Helms to kick around, liberals seem to have forgotten what they stood for.  (we stood for human rights, unequivocally back then. But there was no right &quot;not to be offended.&quot;)