Discussion: Charlie Kirk Defends Free Speech: An Inherent Right
The cited sources give this account: Charlie Kirk defended free speech as an inherent right given to every person by God, explaining that it cannot be abridged, distinguishing it from hate speech and slander. Kirk argued that free speech is true and cannot be silenced, while hate speech and slander are different categories that should be protected under the First Amendment.
The cited sources give this account: Charlie Kirk believed in free speech because he believed in God, and because he believed in God, he believed in the inherent right of every person to say what they think and express their conscience. He explained that free speech is true and cannot be abridged, while hate speech and slander are different categories.
Charlie Kirk defended free speech by explaining that free speech is an inherent right that every person is born with and will die with. He also differentiated between free speech, hate speech, and slander, explaining that free speech is true and cannot be abridged, while hate speech and slander are different categories.
Charlie Kirk's defense of free speech was eloquent and clear, explaining that free speech is an inherent right that every person is born with and will die with. He also differentiated between free speech, hate speech, and slander, explaining that free speech is true and cannot be abridged, while hate speech and slander are different categories.
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Charlie Kirk believed in free speech because he believed in God, and because he believed in God, he believed in the inherent right of every person to say what they think and express their conscience.
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He explained that free speech is true and cannot be abridged, while hate speech and slander are different categories.
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God does not create communities, God creates individuals. And because they are individuals, sovereign individuals created in the likeness of the creator, each one has an inherent right to say what he thinks, to his own conscience, to make up his own mind and to express his conclusions.
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The difference is slander is by definition untrue. That is the legal definition of slander is factually incorrect. You were lying. You were lying about somebody or something.
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Free speech and even this category called hate speech, those are true things and therefore they cannot be abridged ever. Why? Because you have to have the right to tell the truth.
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It is always employed by the people in charge on their own behalf.
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Charlie Kirk's prescription is the only prescription. And he said this repeatedly, if you don't like speech you hear, there is only one way. They're not a myriad ways. There's one way to combat that, and it's with more speech.
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And if he died for anything, it's that. In fact, he died doing that. And so if you wanted to honor his memory, of course, you would try to keep that dying tradition
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Charlie Kirk defended free speech by explaining that free speech is an inherent right that every person is born with and will die with.
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Free speech and even this category called hate speech, those are true things and therefore they cannot be abridged ever.
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slander. And that's a legal category. What's the difference between hate speech or ugly speech? Speech, I don't want to hear, and slander. Well, it's worth saying. The difference is slander is by definition untrue.
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You were lying. You were lying about somebody or something. Free speech and even this category called hate speech, those are true things and therefore they cannot be abridged ever.
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And any society
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that, because underneath the impulse to censor other people, and it's always dressed up as something else, concern, protection, but what really underlies it, of course, is malice and contempt.
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I hate you. I don't consider you fully human. Therefore, I'm not going to allow you to speak. That is unmistakably the message of every attempt to censor speech.
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And as Charlie Kirk said, pretty well in the clip we just showed you, it is always employed by the people in charge on their own behalf.
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they will almost always find some fairly sophisticated way to hide that fact. And once again, they will tell you that your criticism of their behavior is somehow cruelty or out of bounds, but no, what it really is, is a threat to their power, of course.
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And so Charlie Kirk's prescription is the only prescription. And he said this repeatedly, if you don't like speech you hear, there is only one way. They're not a myriad ways. There's one way to combat that, and it's with
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Charlie Kirk's defense of free speech was eloquent and clear, explaining that free speech is an inherent right that every person is born with and will die with.
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Charlie Kirk's prescription is the only prescription. And he said this repeatedly, if you don't like speech you hear, there is only one way.
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And if you wanted to honor his memory, of course, you would try to keep that dying tradition
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He also differentiated between free speech, hate speech, and slander, explaining that free speech is true and cannot be abridged, while hate speech and slander are different categories.
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more speech. Tell me how I'm wrong. And in fact, he spent the last years of his life Touring the country effectively asking crowds that. Tell me how I'm wrong. Ask me anything. I'll defend any of my positions. And I'll do so openly at length in public.
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