free speech – Drew Downs

Politics or Partisan?

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1 min read

Many people get these words confused. And misunderstanding what politics actually is is deadly for democracy.

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3 min read

Trolling isn’t the same thing as debating. But we feel like we have to honor the troll’s arguments as valid. But we don’t.

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7 min read

Alleviating division doesn’t mean we must accept evil as normal. That isn’t tolerance but an abdication of responsibility to others.

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3 min read

You’ve heard people refer to appealing to “the marketplace of ideas.” It’s a pretty clumsy way to refer to a negotiation.

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4 min read

Dealing with Neo-Nazis and white nationalists doesn’t need to be that complicated.

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10 min read

We’ve made a faulty conclusion: that speaking isn’t acting. We couldn’t be more wrong.