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That's because they're not "free speech absolutists", they're fascists that want to force their own idea of what valid speech is on everyone else.

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If true they fit the exact definition of doublespeak.

Same thing the far left does on college campuses. They just do it under the guise of victimhood with terms like "assault" being used to describe someone speaking an unpopular opinion. If the school book wars said the kids were "assaulted" by this "hate speech" would that make it okay? Is that what they are missing is someone feigning victimhood?

Speaking an unpopular opinion on campus might mean you hear other people saying things that you don't like, as well?

In what way do you consider this similar to laws enforced by courts and police and the full legal system?

False equivalence - I don't see lefty culture warriors burning books/removing them from libraries.

They are fighting to get different books (less Eurocentric, for the most part) into the curriculum, but they're not removing them from the library.

I can't think of any explicitly right wing books that are even in libraries anyway.

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