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nxm on Sept 18, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after...

"The left wing is the free speech crowd. " You cannot be serious with the number of times they have actively cancelled just a speaker talking.

f33d5173 on Sept 18, 2025 [–]

The left has a principled interest in free speech, which they've regularly abandoned. The right has used free speech rhetoric at times, but has no attachment to it as a principle.

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