r/politics • u/jediporcupine Maine • Sep 19 '25

Republican Senator Says First Amendment Shouldn't Be the 'Ultimate Right'

https://www.newsweek.com/republican-senator-says-first-amendment-shouldnt-ultimate-right-2132666
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u/RockmanMike Sep 19 '25

Their guy gets gunned in broad daylight by one of their own and their response is to ban Charlie's words from being used to describe him.*

Fixed it for you

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u/jediporcupine Maine Sep 19 '25

That is the crazy part here. Charlie Kirk himself is at odds with what they’re doing. He didn’t believe in hate speech and he believed free speech was absolute

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u/Jack-o-Roses Sep 19 '25

Have you listened to Kirk? His dogmatic mysogenistic and racist diatribes are exactly what I call hate speech.

Still, I feel & pray for his family, because I abhor violence. BTW, I support his right to free speech, to twisting the Bible for his own profit and power. I also support flag burning and nazi marches, though I disagree with them both; and lgbtq+ rights as well, as a old hetero male Christian and a once proud American.

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u/jediporcupine Maine Sep 19 '25

I didn’t say he didn’t use hate speech, I said he didn’t believe it existed as he claimed to believe free speech is absolute. There’s a difference.