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Free speech is for scumbags, too

22 June 2023

10:19 PM

22 June 2023

10:19 PM

It doesn’t take much to get you censored these days. You don’t even need to be that controversial. Believing in biological sex is usually enough. Gender-critical feminists have not only been sacked from jobs and cancelled on campus, but also arrested and dragged through the courts. Sticking up for free speech these days often means defending the rights of eminently reasonable people to air utterly mainstream views.

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