Resistance to bigotry and bigotry are not equally moral positions.

Why don’t we just condemn all political violence (which this doesn’t even really qualify as). But all of this whatabboutism just perpetuates the problem. I’ve had to correct so many of my conservative friends about the Congressional baseball shooting as they talk about the violence on the Left - what about Gabby…

See! This proves that the Left is more violent than the Right! Vandalism. For no reason.

This goes for what you want to hear, and what we don’t want to hear. Your right that the government can’t silence you, but the constitution does protect you from others trying to silence that right. The government and its citizens have the responsibility to protect each other’s rights. I think it is stupid that…

There is a often conflation going on whenever someone cries “Freedom of Speech” in these cases... but that is a separate point from the inconsistent way people tend to apply liberal values in action.

You’re 100% right. Freedom of speech does not protect someone else from exercising their right of free speech to say you are wrong.

That’s like all those dickbags who defended that Duck Dynasty hillbilly. The First Amendment doesn’t protect you from getting fired because you say something that the company you work for thinks reflects badly upon them. If I said anything controversial in a public forum wearing my company golf shirt, I would get in…

FREEDOM OF SPEECH! FREEDOM OF PROTEST!