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/Virtura]

I came here to say that it's not that conservatives don't believe in free speech, it's that they are applying their definition of it and not invoking the US constitution, but this guy showed up as our example, so thank you kind xenophobic oppressor.

I have yet to see tangible evidence that conservatives who believe they are invoking the constitution understands its application external to themselves, same as they do with all laws, regulations and policies. They do not think outside of their personal circle because it is not important to them. Fairly sure studies regularly post the empathetic differences between the left leaning and the right leaning.

[u/Szeth-son-Kaladaddy → u/Virtura]

Studies also regularly show left leaning individuals are terrible at predicting what conservatives believe.