The Death of Free Speech is the Real Injustice

The only way to "normalize" hate speech is to silence hate speech.

I am always dismayed when I see videos of college students chanting slogans that equate speech to violence.The sign above is one example of this terrible idea:

It's not about “Free Speech.” It's about bigots trying to normalize hate.

Their goal, it seems evident, is to shut down dissenting views they deem hateful. Even more troubling are those who feel justified in using physical violence to silence disagreeable speech. While slogans like this can be powerful and persuasive, the question we need to ask is this: Are they true?

The current movement to silence speech perceived as "harmful to the public" is not only short-sighted, but is itself the real danger to those who seek a just society. Democrats (and modern Leftists) have always looked to silence speech as a way to protect their power. As I've written before, when Democrats realized the Electoral College endangered their power to keep slaves, they tried to use the power of the big states to silence the voices of the smaller states, in hopes of preventing the election of Abraham Lincoln.