“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.