>We currently live in a "there is only one correct opinion, all others must be canceled" culture.
We really, really aren't.
>If speech has consequences that are administered outside the law, then it's not really free.
Just take a moment and thing about what you just wrote. It's absolutely nonsense.
I can't go in to a job interview and call the panel a bunch of cunts and then expect to be hired. That's a consequence of speech "administered outside the law".
Does this mean there's no free speech? No, of course it doesn't.
I find it interminably frustrating that people (moreso on the right, and moreso in America, but neither exclusively) hold free speech above pretty much everything else. People have more than ONE right.
Free association is also a right that needs to be protected. And that means people should be free to associate with (or to NOT associate with) people that have said things they disagree with.
We really, really aren't.
>If speech has consequences that are administered outside the law, then it's not really free.
Just take a moment and thing about what you just wrote. It's absolutely nonsense.
I can't go in to a job interview and call the panel a bunch of cunts and then expect to be hired. That's a consequence of speech "administered outside the law".
Does this mean there's no free speech? No, of course it doesn't.
I find it interminably frustrating that people (moreso on the right, and moreso in America, but neither exclusively) hold free speech above pretty much everything else. People have more than ONE right.
Free association is also a right that needs to be protected. And that means people should be free to associate with (or to NOT associate with) people that have said things they disagree with.