It's kinda funny spending several years on one issue.
The sixth anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo shooting is a couple weeks away; and, that was my catalyst. That was even where, as an adult, I saw twelve people murdered for what they said. That was the moment that I decided that the fight for free speech is worth my life.
In the years after, I've taken a few questions from heroes of mine like Hitchens, Neier, and Gourevitch while inventing a few of my own:
"Who would you appoint to set up a barricade in the antechamber of your mind and decide what you can read, see, or hear?"
"If you wouldn't appoint anybody for yourself, how do you justify appointing somebody to other people?"
"If you've read Mein Kampf and didn't become a Nazi, why do you think I can't see a swastika and not become a skinhead?"
"If you're in favor of banning Nazi symbols due to anti-Semitic context, are you in favor of banning the anti-Semitic parts of the Qu'ran and The Hadith?"
"If you're in favor of banning speech that comes from gross organizations like NAMBLA, are you going to support Austria for jailing a woman for attacking Muhammad for having sex with a nine year-old?"
"If you're okay with banning Charlie Hebdo images, are you okay with France jailing a comedian for making Jew jokes after the shooting?"
"If you think that it's right for the UK to threaten a guy with jail time for training his girlfriend's pug to do a Nazi salute, should the UK jail Jimmy Carr for jokes like, 'Say what you will about the Nazis; but, they did manage to conduct a lot of medical research without hurting any animals.' or 'If we could just get more mosquito nets to Africa we could save millions of mosquitos from needlessly dying of AIDS?'"
The only direct answer that I got was to the question about censoring passages in religious texts with a "yes." That's one direct answer from a person who opposes free speech in five fucking years and it came from a fascist.
If you're gonna convince me that I'm wrong in defending all speech, you've gotta step up your game.