One of the more insidious misconceptions is that those who argue in favour of free speech simply do not care about minorities, or even wish to return to a time when casual racism, homophobia and sexism were ubiquitous. According to this supposition, the very notion of freedom of speech is a ‘dog whistle’, a term typically deployed when the target of a critic’s ire has not said anything incriminating, but a pernicious underlying intention is nonetheless assumed
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