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- From: paul@hsh.com
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- Subject: Re: Libero/consevatives DO oppose First Amendment rights ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.174935.261@hsh.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 21:49:35 GMT
- References: <rdippold.721592462@qualcom> <92317.231441MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> <15NOV199214193432@venus.tamu.edu>
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- In article <15NOV199214193432@venus.tamu.edu>, lav4208@venus.tamu.edu writes:
- >>>Perhaps you can point out a few opposing examples for us?
- >>
-
- [.................]
- >> All of this leads me to the solid conclusion that conservatives
- >>are the real guarantors of First Amendment Rights in the U.S. Liberals
- >>support other people's First Amendment rights only when the speach
- >>agrees with them. Liberals have concocted a large number of terms
- >>like "political correctness" in attempt to stifle the First Amendment
- >>rights of people with opposing viewpoints. Political incorrectness
- >>**IS** fully protected by the First Amendment, but liberals refuse to
- >>accept this. Conservatives, however, always respect the First Amendment
- >>rights of everybody, regardless of opposing viewpoints.
- >>
- >> Liberals are no more the guarantors of the First Amendment than
- >>totalitarians are the guarantors of personal freedoms.
- >
- > I live and work on a primarily conservative campus. Everything
- > you cited above goes on here too, only here its the conservatives
- > doing it to the liberals. The era signs dont last 5 minutes and
- > the religious/conservative signs have been known to evoke threats
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > if they are touched. If you will not confuse the entirety of liberalism
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > with the small sample to which you are exposed, I will try not to
- > do the same with conservatives.
-
- It's a shame EVERYONE doesn't show respect for free speech. However, a cynic
- might note that "threats if they are touched" may speak volumes, both about
- conservative defense of free speech AND about private-property rights.....
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