Why don't conservatives realize that "freedom of speech" doesn't mean "freedom from reaction"?

Question

Yes, you CAN say whatever you want. And I can say whatever I want in return. So please stop acting like, just because I respond to what you say, I am trying to prohibit you from exercising your First Amendment rights. If that's the best response you can come up with, then you don't know how to take advantage of your First Amendment rights.

Jack: Thanks for parroting my point. What a shock that you don't have an original thought.

Dina: I'm a woman, you moron.

Answer 1

Show me an American who acutely understands our Constitution and our Bill of Rights and I will show you a Liberal Democrat

Answer 2

Not really, Fascism is actually a form of socialism where the Government controls a large part of the society. Also, most conservatives believe in freedom of Religion not freedom from Religion. Also, most Religions have similar views to what the Christians think are moral. It is only the people who don't believe in Religion of any kind that has a problem with this.

Answer 3

Wow, are you ever off about 180 degrees! Conservaties are more than happy to let the other side speak, as tey are discredited by their own words. It is the left which forever attempts to silence conservatives. When was the last time you read about a liberal speaker being shouted down? It happens routinely with conservatives asked to speak at colleges and universities. Look what the ever so tolerant faculty at Harvard did to their president because he dared voice a question they didn't like.

Answer 4

Deal, if we are going to post a question with the purpose of getting outrageous reactions, then lets be adult enough to not report the response as a Violation.

Answer 5

You have the right to say what you want (within limitations of time, place, and manner) and people have a right to react to it.

The freedom of speech has nothing to do with people listening to you. The government doesn't have to provide you with an audience.

Answer 6

My problem with you is that you pretend to be knowledgeable when you are really a pretentious biased jerk.

And any man who calls a women "honey" when they answer a question shows what a true Neanderthal they are. I cannot believe because I answered your question you felt it was alright to refer to me as honey. You seem to be just a typical elitist pig.

Answer 7

I'm sorry, but WHERE the hell are you going to find an example of Conservatives attempting to suppress freedom of speech?

It's Liberals that attempt to stifle freedom of expression.

Lets list examples, shall we?

Let's start with the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act. This law explicitly stifles freedom of speech, and was backed solely by liberals--and yes, on this issue, GW Bush was as liberal as the rest of them. (Let's establish up front that BUSH IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE.)

http://www.hillsdale.edu/imprimis/2004/01/

Then we've got liberal college students denying The Minutemen the opportunity to speak at Columbia University.

http://www.rightlinx.com/?p=451

And liberal university officials banning military recruiters from their campuses.

http://www.slate.com/id/2131643/

And while we're on the subject of colleges, let's not forget about their "speech codes."

http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/freedom/aaup.html

And it's not just higher education, either. Kids in high school and elementary school are forbidden to wear shirts depicting weapons...

http://www.nsba.org/site/doc_cosa.asp?TRACKID=&CID=488&DID=33477

Or political groups associated with promoting the 2nd Amendment...

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=12294

Or the Confederate flag.

http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=12455

Heck, liberals don't want to stop with schools. They'd like to see the Confederate flag banished from all public properties.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36744

Then there's the Left's campaign to criminalize free speech as "hate speech."

http://www.wcl.american.edu/hrbrief/v3i2/lerner32.htm

Really...I could go on all day like this. Where are your examples?

Answer 8

Like I tell all of my Liberal friends, I will fight and die for your right to your wrong opinion. It's also our right to disagree with what you say.

Answer 9

Fine. Too bad they don't learn that at Columbia when left wing students physically attacked Jim Gilchrist on stage (who had been invited to speak).

Answer 10

Hey, you're the same one who doesn't know what "freedom isn't free" means, huh? 'Nuff said.

Answer 11

Why do libs think that freedom of speech is license to lie?
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