On being careful what you wish for...........

...........................................Here are two wee excerpts from an essay on free speech found in The Chronicle of Higher Education:

Barring speakers or preventing hate speech does not safeguard the oppressed. It empowers the oppressors...

Free speech is the greatest single ally of social justice and, even at its most noxious and repulsive, is often a catalyst for reflection and remediation. It is easy to mistake it for a tool of repression when, in fact, it is the antidote.

Full essay here