[Pontiac]

His imprisonment has set off massive protests in England, where many people thought they had the right to free speech.

Fools and idiots.

Why would they think that?!!!

All kinds of conservative speakers have been banned from Britain and they think there is free speech in England? With all of the laws forbidding speaking negatively about minorities they think there is free speech in England?

Fools and idiots.

[Boogieman]

I’ve debated this with Europeans before. They are under the delusion that “it’s different” when only “hate speech” is banned. They don’t seem to understand that when the state can define “hate speech” as whatever they want, there are no more guarantees on any kind of free speech at all.

I think part of the short circuit in their brain is that Europeans have an ingrained prejudice against admitting that Americans might actually be right about anything. Sure, they like the idea of free speech, but they have to find a better way of implementing it than we did, because we have to be backwards about it somehow.