Comment by brookst
1 day ago
It’s terrifying that anyone would not only accept forbidding travel to critics, but also thinks it’s normal. From de Toqueville and Dickens to de Beauvoir to Žižek, the US used to welcome and embrace criticism.
Have we really become as thin-skinned as North Korea?
You're free to have an opinion but not from the consequences of that opinion. Sound familiar?
Nice! Such a great gotcha if you've never read the Constitution or spent 30 seconds thinking about how freedom of speech works.
You're free to have an opinion and be free from state-sanctioned consequences.
You are not guaranteed to be free from private parties choosing not to affiliate with you, calling you mean names, or banning you from their platforms... for the obvious reason that protecting that right would require that the state compel specific speech from private parties, which... See Step 1!
All of this should have been covered by about 8th grade. Were you paying attention?