Tuesday in the Washington Post, a curious thing happened; a contributing writer for the national newspaper actually argued against conservatives' right to the First Amendment, seemingly not understanding her own right to print that opinion is protected by that same amendment.
Professor Jennifer Delton’s arduous piece,“When Free Speech Becomes a Political Weapon,” in a nutshell, attacked the right, and “alt right,” for “using” free speech as a “weapon” to advance their unwelcome ideologies, which she says “subvert our democracy.”
In the ensuing jumbling argument she advances, she defines free speech as something it is not, and makes unsubstantiated claims that the right is trying to “undermine democracy” so their rights should no longer be protected...
Read more at:
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2017/08/22/washpost-writer-actually-argues-against-conservatives-free-speech
