Free speech

One of the founding principals of liberalism was the protection of free speech. In recent years as liberals morphed into progressive free speech has come under attack. It started with words and phrases that were considered unacceptable, words like illegal immigrants, radical Islam, states rights, traditional values, inner city and thug. People who misspoke were publicly ridiculed and called insensitive. Soon it spread to colleges where certain speakers were shouted down or canceled. Progressives want to bring back the Fairness Doctrine in order to close down conservative talk radio. Progressives are circulating petitions to remove Fox News from cable TV. Other progressives are asking twitter to stop Trump from tweeting. In a society that believes in free speech the way to discourage what are considered troublesome or dangerous ideas is to come up with better ideas. Freedom of speech was put in the constitution to free speech that is not popular or considered insensitive.