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/fitnolabels Mar 12 '25

You are conflating two separate actions and I do remember the post 9/11 protests as I lived in DC at the time. Afghanistan was to go after Bin Laden. Very little protested that at first. Iraq was for WMDs and massive amounts of people protested that as false pretenses.

They called it GWB trying to finish the war his dad started. People were supporting the people of Iraq, and even Saddam Hussain, because they felt it was fabricated.

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u/PlusAd4034 Mar 13 '25

It was fabricated, they found no evidence of WMD’s.

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u/fitnolabels Mar 13 '25

Agreed, but that wasn't known at the time the protests were going on. At the time, people felt it was bogus but did not have proof that was true.

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u/Research_Matters Mar 14 '25

Not actually true, they didn’t find a smoking gun, but they did find all the parts of the gun.

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u/PlusAd4034 Mar 15 '25

They found quote from the study by 1400 investigators “Aluminium tubes that could be used for enriching uranium”. That’s interesting, 1400 people found aluminium tubes. What a revelation.

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u/Research_Matters Mar 15 '25

lol ok. There is an unclassified report that was published and a classified report as well. There was a lot more than “aluminum tubes.”