Not for the first time there seems to be a confusion about free speech in this country.
It’s strange because this country has the best free speech rights of any country in the world. In their wisdom the Founders literally addressed this question first.
So why do I say there is still such confusion about it? Because every day we see the inability of people to understand the difference between three things in particular.
The first is that free speech includes the right to say things that other people do not like. Yes — it even includes the right to be a total jackass. There is no law against this.
But the second thing is that if you do behave like a jackass then people also have the right to say that this is what you are.
Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post
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Douglas Murray is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of City Journal.
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