Americans’ growing support for free speech doesn’t include racist speech

Americans tend to pick and choose who should be afforded civil liberties to some degree, a centuries-old issue that has flared up once again after a video of racist chants by University of Oklahoma fraternity brothers went viral. …

Americans have become more supportive of free speech for a variety of controversial groups in recent decades, but this growing acceptance has not extended to racists. This finding comes from the long-running General Social Survey of U.S. adults. CONT.

Scott Clement, Washington Post

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