That free speech cliché, the one about disapproving with someone’s idea but defending the right to speak it, is quickly becoming a heresy.
In a new Cato Institute survey, the libertarian think tank found that 43 percent of Americans believe supporting free speech of racists is tantamount to sharing the views of those racist. For instance, finding it objectionable to censure Richard Spencer is now equivalent to marching alongside the half-whit white supremacist.
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