The Right And The Left Are Both Hypocrites When It Comes To Arguments Of Free Speech

I haven't really been in support of any protest movement that involves holding signs and begging the government to do things, especially since Trump came to office because none of these protests are about war. surveillance, or the police state, its all about his "dirty mouth."

However, the recent women's march and many of the criticisms against it has me scratching my head a bit, and I see both sides of this argument as being hypocritical about the issue of "free speech."

The conservatives and Trumpers have been yammering on and on about free speech because they are upset that their racism is being rejected by society at large and thus "free speech" has become the centerpiece of their platform. Yet, I sign on the internet and see all of these conservative Trump supporters bashing the women's march because they used profanity and sexual language around children. It is massively hypocritical to criticise the march for these reasons, and personally, while I disagreed with many aspects of the march and the goals behind it, I strongly supported that part of it, because we live in a square ass sexually repressed culture. However, I did find it strange that these were the same people who have been criticizing Trump's "dirty mouth" every day for the past year.

The left does the same thing too, they claim that Trump is not "presidential" (whatever that means) because he uses profanity and has been known to use the services of sex workers, meanwhile, they call for the liberation of sex workers (as they should) and use the same profanity themselves.

People want free speech for themselves, but not for anyone else, even when it comes to the same issues or same type of speech.

Racism is a more complicated topic because it involves veiled threats, which walk a thin line when it comes to free speech, but with sexuality and profanity, people are OK with using that type of speech or expression themselves, but then gasp when their enemies do the same.

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