But now that the shoe is on the other foot, literal advocacy for political murder has to be protected (and rounded off to "criticism" in media ledes), apparently.
The shoe was on the other foot when conservative professors were being fired or disciplined for expressing - say "anti trans" viewpoints publicly. The outcomes were largely the same.
Especially from, supposedly, the people crying about cancel culture and lack of free speech.
I remember being shocked back in 2016 when Steve Bannon said he’s a Leninist. But it’s a clear-eyed and unusually honest example of how the far right is about becoming the thing you profess to hate.
basically it looks like this:
when you don’t like something and an authority also doesn’t like something, you agree with anything the authority levies as punishment
but
was it within the parameters of what that authority can levy?
was it even the accurate authority to levy anything?
if you are not mentally or emotionally capable of answering that question, then the person affected likely can both reverse the punishment as well as harm the authority for acting at all because it should be pretty clear and citable how that authority’s actions fit within the governing system