Everybody supports freedom of speech for ideas they agree with. The concept only has meaning if it's applied to ideas you don't agree with. I don't agree with the idea conservative lawyer Ilya Shapiro expressed in January, when he objected to President Biden's promise to appoint a Black woman to the first Supreme Court opening. (I wrote a column attacking his position.) But rather than simply refute his easily refutable arguments, Shapiro's critics demanded he be fired by Georgetown, which had just hired him to teach at its law center. Georgetown agreed on principle with the demand that he could be fired for his opinions but kept him on staff on a technicality.
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