• kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Freedom of expression doesn’t mean free from consequences.

      It only means you can’t be arrested for what you say.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah, actually. They did. Consequences don’t always come from those in the right. Sometimes they come from fanatics and deviants. Consequences and justice are not synonyms.

          You can provide protections from certain unsavory consequences, but those protections will never be perfect. Sometimes terrible things happen to people for expressing themselves. That doesn’t mean they didn’t have the inalienable right to express themselves in the first place.