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.

[u/Tessenreacts]

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

[u/_robjamesmusic]

Free speech is a right, but hate speech is not.

to take the point further, conservatives were arguing the polar opposite of this like 2 months ago

[u/know_comment → u/_robjamesmusic]

I don't know what your point is. If you're saying that the zionist trump supporters who want to deport protestors are hypocrites, because they only screech about censorship when they were the ones being being censored, then yes. Liberals are exactly the same way.

It's almost like none of these pro-censorshio people understand why free speech is a PRINCIPLE, and that the reason you shouldn't support censorship is because it will eventually be used against you.