tolerance for controversial speech switched its political ideology. Among Silents and Boomers, liberals were slightly more likely than conservatives to support the free speech rights of someone with racist views, but by the Millennial birth years support among liberals began to decline, dipping decisively below conservatives’ support among those born in the 1990s and plummeting among Gen Z liberals (see Figure 6.23). Thus supporting free speech rights, even for someone with racist views, was once more common among liberals, but is now more common among conservatives.
