I just took a class in law school last semester that focused on the rule of law. We spent a week talking about free speech and what was kind of interesting was that neither side really believes in it anymore. Examples of the left abandoning it are obvious, but then you also have people on the right like Sohrab Ahmari wanting to crack down on things like drag queen story hour and pornography. Free speech is a principle of liberalism, and liberalism failed. It's probably better to just accept that and move on than to be clutching our pearls talking about free speech.
Are you out of your damned mind? That's not a "free speech" issue, that's a "don't let pedos around small children" issue. No one was saying the ugly trannies were forbidden to read children's stories; they just didn't think children should be present while the crotch-flashing nutjobs were doing it.
David French asked Amari what he would do to stop it. He said that he would pass city ordinances. French said they would get struck down under the First Amendment. He was right. I'm not sure what you know about 1A jurisprudence that French and I don't know.
The fact that the people applying your laws are corrupt and are disingenuously framing this as a free speech issue doesn't change the fact that the people objecting to drag queen story hour were OBJECTING TO THE PRESENCE OF CHILDREN THERE. If trannies wanted to book time to read children's books to each other, or to their supporters, no one would have cared. It was the presence of toddlers that was the problem, not the speech itself.
This distinction doesn't matter like you think it does. What matters is the language in the legislation. Just to keep it simple for example, if you were to pass a city ordinance that said something like "No public library shall be used for drag queens to read stories to children," it is still a free speech issue even though the legislation does not purport to prohibit drag queens reading stories while not in the presence of children. I promise you that you are dead wrong on this subject.
I just took a class in law school last semester that focused on the rule of law. We spent a week talking about free speech and what was kind of interesting was that neither side really believes in it anymore. Examples of the left abandoning it are obvious, but then you also have people on the right like Sohrab Ahmari wanting to crack down on things like drag queen story hour and pornography. Free speech is a principle of liberalism, and liberalism failed. It's probably better to just accept that and move on than to be clutching our pearls talking about free speech.
Are you out of your damned mind? That's not a "free speech" issue, that's a "don't let pedos around small children" issue. No one was saying the ugly trannies were forbidden to read children's stories; they just didn't think children should be present while the crotch-flashing nutjobs were doing it.
David French asked Amari what he would do to stop it. He said that he would pass city ordinances. French said they would get struck down under the First Amendment. He was right. I'm not sure what you know about 1A jurisprudence that French and I don't know.
The fact that the people applying your laws are corrupt and are disingenuously framing this as a free speech issue doesn't change the fact that the people objecting to drag queen story hour were OBJECTING TO THE PRESENCE OF CHILDREN THERE. If trannies wanted to book time to read children's books to each other, or to their supporters, no one would have cared. It was the presence of toddlers that was the problem, not the speech itself.
This distinction doesn't matter like you think it does. What matters is the language in the legislation. Just to keep it simple for example, if you were to pass a city ordinance that said something like "No public library shall be used for drag queens to read stories to children," it is still a free speech issue even though the legislation does not purport to prohibit drag queens reading stories while not in the presence of children. I promise you that you are dead wrong on this subject.