Conservatives absolutely love free speech—but only when it applies to them. In the past few months, they have feigned outrage about several prominent right-wingers like Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos being disinvited to college campuses amid protests by those they’ve labeled as “snowflakes” who don’t want their bigoted ideas anywhere near them. They are quick to call liberals intolerant, but their rhetoric often blurs the line between free speech and hate speech and has incited security concerns. Yet they vehemently advocate for those on the right to say what they want, when they want to. And this right does not extend to those on the opposite side of the ideological spectrum.
Take for instance, Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor...
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