A few weeks back we had a former president claiming in a court that he had the right to tell lies to the electorate with the aim of overturning an election because it was 'free speech'.New thoughts for the weekend.
College Presidents went to Congress lecturing us on and hiding behind Free Speech. To them, free speech is not an absolute and has to be put into context. The more subjectively oppressed that your group is, the freer your speech is as an individual. For groups deemed to be privileged, the individual’s speech must be monitored and restricted. The Twitter model.
In both cases, you can say what ever you want because free speech is an American Right and those in the oppressed groups are rewarded and praised no matter what ugly, divisive statement/slogan they utter especially when it is aimed at an oppressor whereas the oppressors must be punished for having the insensitivity to say that and hurt the feelings of the oppressed groups. It’s all so clear, just because you have a right, doesn’t mean that you don’t have a responsibility. The oppressed has the obligation to speak out, to be rude, to be confrontational and the oppressor has a similar obligation to confess, confirm and console.
The enlightened professor, the champion of the oppressed, must supersede the oppressor because there is free speech and there is offensive speech and they, the academic spokespeople of the oppressed, have been taught the tools that you they oppressor is ignorant of.
Now we have the 𝕏 model and shepherding professors and their sheep the nation over are all bleating mad that they smell musky.
I'm not sure that was what the Framers had in mind. I'd like to think that the 'College Presidents' would agree more with the Framers than the person who held the 'Office of President' but now (using free speech) claims that he never held office and never swore an oath to support the Constitution.