Free speech preserves civil rights and protects minorities
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It is a common theme on the radical Left that free speech itself is a bad thing, because it enables bad people and causes oppression of minorities. It saddens me to see people (especially candidates for elective office) dismiss the First Amendment as written by "white men" who supported slavery, as if that invalidates the principle of free speech. Do they not realize that without the First Amendment, the civil rights movement could not have existed?
Free speech preserves civil rights and protects minorities
Free speech preserves civil rights and…
Free speech preserves civil rights and protects minorities
It is a common theme on the radical Left that free speech itself is a bad thing, because it enables bad people and causes oppression of minorities. It saddens me to see people (especially candidates for elective office) dismiss the First Amendment as written by "white men" who supported slavery, as if that invalidates the principle of free speech. Do they not realize that without the First Amendment, the civil rights movement could not have existed?