Thank you for writing this (and I say that as an American). We as a country are are gargantuan hypocrites about this whole thing; the idea of free speech in our Constitution--to say nothing of plenty of other privileges that we pretend are rights--is one of many things we <i>don&#x27;t</i> pass on to the people we claim hegemony over.<p>We are tremendously bad at owning our shit. I wish we were better.