It’s a simple answer: YES.
Everyone can rant and rave against this or that until it happens to them and good example is this whole non-story of the Pittsburgh coffee shop using the likeness of POTUS Donnie, VP Pence, Ann Coulter and others on punch cards for free coffee. Many GOP’ers are crying foul but you damn well know if another coffee shop were doing the same with POTUS Barry, Sec Clinton and their cronies those very same GOP’ers would be lining up around the corner laughing with cash in hand – PB/TK
Free speech vs. safe spaces: Are conservatives “special snowflakes” when it comes to discourse they don’t like? – Matthew Rozsa Apr 1, 2017
You hear it all the time from conservatives: The left must remember to tolerate dissenting opinions. But if you’ve followed the news cycle recently, you may have noticed that it hasn’t been the left imposing social penalties on its members for expressing controversial opinions recently. It’s been the right.
Tomi Lahren formerly of The Blaze, who was once hailed as the second coming of Ann Coulter, is now fighting to retain control of her Facebook page after being unceremoniously dropped for daring to express a pro-choice opinion. Meanwhile Milo Yiannopoulos formerly of Breitbart — whom the right once claimed to venerate because of his willingness to flout the taboos of discourse — was toppled last month when it was discovered he had once seemingly condoned ephebophilia.
So what gives? Why are members of the left regularly denounced as “special snowflakes” when the right just took down two of its highest profile pundits for daring to stray from the ideological reservation?
“Both ends of the political spectrum can be vociferous defenders of speech with which they agree, but are sorely tested when speech offends them,” said Ken Paulson — president of the First Amendment Center and dean of Middle Tennessee State University’s College of Mass Communication, as well as former editor-in-chief of USA Today. “America became a great country in large part because everyone could share an opinion, and over time, the best ideas forged our nation. Today everyone is free to speak, but where’s the value if no one is willing to listen?”
“The First Amendment protects insightful ideas, but also stupid, insensitive, hateful and deeply offensive speech,”Paulson added in an email. “There’s no cherry-picking the right to speak.”
Continue to salon.com article: http://www.salon.com/2017/04/01/free-speech-vs-safe-spaces-are-conservatives-special-snowflakes-when-it-comes-to-discourse-they-dont-like/
