What the Far-Left Doesn’t Understand About Free Speech

It’s not a threat to democracy — it is democracy

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I’ll admit, there is one very big downside to free speech: it hurts. You will, inevitably, encounter someone, somewhere, who says something you don’t like. It may even shatter the way you view the world. It hurts. But it’s not a code word for “hate” or being “anti-left.” It means what it…