The New York Times, a former newspaper, makes an impassioned case against Free Speech

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Weaponizing the First Amendment: How Free Speech Became a Conservative Cudgel

The two decisions were the latest in a stunning run of victories for a conservative agenda that has increasingly been built on the foundation of free speech. Conservative groups, borrowing and building on arguments developed by liberals, have used the First Amendment to justify unlimited campaign spending, discrimination against gay couples and attacks on the regulation of tobacco, pharmaceuticals and guns.

“When I was younger, I had more of the standard liberal view of civil liberties,” said Louis Michael Seidman, a law professor at Georgetown. “And I’ve gradually changed my mind about it. What I have come to see is that it’s a mistake to think of free speech as an effective means to accomplish a more just society.”

To the contrary, free speech reinforces and amplifies injustice, Catharine A. MacKinnon, a law professor at the University of Michigan, wrote in “The Free Speech Century,” a collection of essays to be published this year.

“Once a defense of the powerless, the First Amendment over the last hundred years has mainly become a weapon of the powerful,” she wrote. “Legally, what was, toward the beginning of the 20th century, a shield for radicals, artists and activists, socialists and pacifists, the excluded and the dispossessed, has become a sword for authoritarians, racists and misogynists, Nazis and Klansmen, pornographers and corporations buying elections.”

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At this point let Your Humble Pimpness briefly interject to

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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a larger share of First Amendment cases concerning conservative speech than earlier courts had, according to the study prepared for The Times. And it has ruled in favor of conservative speech at a higher rate than liberal speech as compared to earlier courts.

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Got that. It's not Free Speech. It's magically become something called "Conservative speech" which the former newspaper NYT assures us is dastardly. And we should all be concerned about all this "Conservative speech", which as you know is far different from the more Correct Liberal Speech, which is they assure us, the real Free Speech.

So to recap: A former newspaper says Free Speech by liberals is essential to justice and Free Speech by Conservatives is a bludgeon or club of injustice.