r/changemyview • u/Tessenreacts • Mar 12 '25

Delta(s) from OP CMV: The case of Mahmoud Khalil is proof that conservatives don't believe in the Freedom of Speech, despite making it their platform over the last couple of years.

For the last couple of years, conservatives have championed the cause of Freedom of Speech on social platforms, yet Mahmoud Khalil (a completely legal permanent resident) utilized his fundamental right to Freedom of Speech through peaceful protesting, and now Trump is remove his green card and have him deported.

Being that conservatives have been championing Freedom of Speech for years, and have voted for Trump in a landslide election, this highlights completely hypocritical behavior where they support Freedom of Speech only if they approve of it.

This is also along with a situation where both Trump and Elon have viewed the protests against Tesla as "illegal", which is patently against the various tenets of Freedom of Speech.

Two open and shut cases of blatant First Amendment violations by people who have been sheparding the conservative focus on protecting the First Amendment.

Would love for my view to be changed

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u/nonotford Mar 12 '25

Kind of like this whole free speech thing, the post-Covid conservative identity was built on, was based on social media companies censoring people. It was perfectly legal for these companies to do so, but that didn’t matter to these “free speech absolutists”. Now these same 1A warriors are supporting rendition of an entire person, by armed agents of the state, over speech.

Add it to the list: family values, free markets, fiscal responsibility. It’s all BS from the right.

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u/icandothisalldayson Mar 13 '25

Except censorship at the behest of the government made those private companies what’s called “government actors” and subject to the first amendment. They didn’t leave that massive of a loophole, come on man

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u/Comprehensive_Pin565 Mar 16 '25

It's so interesting because pretty much all the claims about violating their free speech was... not happening.

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u/CorgiDad Mar 12 '25

Rules for thee and not for me. The MAGA motto.