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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
-Salman Rushdie
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One Of The Problems With Defending Free

Salman Rushdie
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to defend the free speech of people you either agree with or who don't particularly upset you. it's when people really upset you that you discover if you believe in free speech or not.
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Diversity means, when the left teaches it, the people responsible for building america and maintaining it get the short end of the stick from now on. with this singular american culture that people came and wanted to be part of, they were proud, couldn't wait to become americans, tears in their eyes when it happened. it was a special place. defending it now, defending that america, defending our cultural, defending our founding, defending all of the things that made this country great is now called racism or xenophobia or hate.
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I think that's the real shame: we spent the last 48 hours talking about these disgusting, disgusting comments and disgusting behavior instead of talking about hurricane relief or what's going on in flint, michigan. it's just appalling to have to be dealing with such nonsense and such disgusting, you know, criminal speech.
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But i - and i just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.
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I don't know who the great lawyers are, and i presume you can't get to them. i know of no case where it can be said for certain that they took part. they defend some people, but you can't get them to do that through your own efforts, they only defend the ones they want to defend. but i assume a case they take on must have progressed beyond the lower court. it's better not to think of them at all, otherwise you'll find the consultations with the other lawyers, their advice and their assistance, extremely disgusting and useless.
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People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. you have to defend the ku klux klan as well as martin luther king. it's like that. if you're going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.
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