https://www.resetera.com/posts/5885478/
"Free speech" is a dogwhistle in 90% of these sorts of arguments.
HAHA, we are at the point that anything someone says is some sort of dogwhistle. Amazing.
Still blows my fucking mind people that see Free Speech as something negative.
Well you have to understand that quite a few groups don’t actually see all the benefits of free speech. Certainly a lot less than others. And people only seem to get fired up when certain free speech is attacked, not all of it, so it comes off hollow.
What part of free speech is being attacked and not defended?
Just as one example:
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/opinion/black-identity-extremism-fbi-trump.html
I'm not sure because TL:DR but glossing over it, it does look like a defense? Isn't it a defense?
The pdf summary..........
UNCLASSIFIED//LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE
UNCLASSIFIED//LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE
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IntelligenceAssessment_FY17
(U) Executive Summary
(U//FOUO) The FBI assesses it is very likelya
Black Identity Extremistb (BIE) perceptions of
police brutality against African Americans spurred an increase in premeditated, retaliatory lethal
violence against law enforcement and will very likely serve as justification for such violence.
The FBI assess it is very likely this increase began following the 9 August 2014 shooting of
Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the subsequent Grand Jury November 2014
declination to indict the police officers involved. The FBI assesses it is very likely incidents of
alleged police abuse against African Americans since then have continued to feed the resurgence
in ideologically motivated, violent criminal activity within the BIE movement. The FBI assesses
it is very likely some BIEs are influenced by a mix of anti-authoritarian, Moorish sovereign
citizenc ideology, and BIE ideology. The FBI has high confidenced in these assessments, based
on a history of violent incidents attributed to individuals who acted on behalf of their ideological
beliefs, documented in FBI investigations and other law enforcement and open source reporting.
The FBI makes this judgment with the key assumption the recent incidents are ideologically
motivated.