Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Do we get what free speech means?


I wonder sometimes. And I wonder about the widespread fear that hearing twisted vicious messages will make us, particularly the younger among us, more twisted and vicious. I think the young Neo-Nazis I wrote about recently do a pretty good job disproving that premise. This week's column strongly hints that others see this differently, and some of them work in state government.
What exactly are we afraid of?

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