Free speech lessons from jackass Jasmine Crockett and anti-Israel foreign students
Not for the first time there seems to be a confusion about free speech in this country.It’s strange because this country has the best free speech rights of any country in the world.In their wisdom the Founders literally addressed this question first.So why do I say there is still such confusion about it? Because every day we see the inability of people to understand the difference between three things in particular.The first is that free speech includes the right to say things that other people do not like.
Yes — it even includes the right to be a total jackass.There is no law against this.But the second thing is that if you do behave like a jackass then people also have the right to say that this is what you are.For years the woke left gave us all an enormous amount of amusement via their inability to distinguish between these things.The third thing that many people are now confused about is the difference between speech and violence.Purple-haired maniacs said “If you misgender me you are literally committing violence against me and genociding me.”Words are violence, they insisted.
When many of those same people spent the summer of 2020 encouraging or excusing violence we then learned that violence wasn’t violence.All of which amply showed up their upside-down ideology.In fact it was at moments like this that people not only grew to despise the woke ideology.
It was the moment when people saw through it.Now that the right is in charge there are, perhaps inevitably, people who want to play the same tricks back against the left.There was a classic example this week when Rep.Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) spoke at a banquet in Los Angeles.Crockett is not one of our most eloquent representatives.
During her remarks she started rambling about “these hot ass Texas streets, honey.”She went on to say: “You all know we have Governor Hot Wheels down there.Come on now.
And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot ass mess, honey.So um yes, yes yes.�...