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minus-square@Red_October@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish376•11 months agoRemember back when Elon kept calling himself a Free Speech Absolutist? That just gets funnier every day.
minus-square@TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish165•11 months agoRight-wingers only seem to care about free speech when it applies to themselves. Anyone else and they’ll get talking of “defeating the woke mind virus” or whatever ridiculous way they decide to demonize others. Reminds me of that Sartre quote
minus-square@doppelgangmember@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish22•11 months agoMy speech or the highway!
minus-squareSybillinkfedilinkEnglish19•11 months agohttps://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7870768-never-believe-that-anti-semites-are-completely-unaware-of-the-absurdity
minus-square@winterayars@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish10•11 months agotldr they know what they’re doing.
minus-square@Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish48•11 months agoFree speech absolutist means “I am absolutely free from the consequences of my speech”
minus-square@moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish4•11 months agoI also remember a bunch of people saying Elon will preserve free speech. It looked like a cult.
Remember back when Elon kept calling himself a Free Speech Absolutist? That just gets funnier every day.
Right-wingers only seem to care about free speech when it applies to themselves. Anyone else and they’ll get talking of “defeating the woke mind virus” or whatever ridiculous way they decide to demonize others.
Reminds me of that Sartre quote
My speech or the highway!
Which one?
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7870768-never-believe-that-anti-semites-are-completely-unaware-of-the-absurdity
tldr they know what they’re doing.
Free speech absolutist means “I am absolutely free from the consequences of my speech”
I also remember a bunch of people saying Elon will preserve free speech. It looked like a cult.