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Ocelot II

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3. I thought free speech included the right to be insensitive, inappropriate or offensive.
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 11:17 AM
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Not that it was insensitive, inappropriate or offensive for Charlie Kirk, the free speech warrior, to tell Black women like Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that they "do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously... You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously." If it's wrong to shoot someone on account of their offensive speech, is it wrong to fire someone for offensive speech? "The remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.”

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