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by DominikR 3837 days ago
To support free speech is to support free speech precisely when you disagree with the opinion voiced.

Either you support that people may say whatever the hell they like to say or you are definitely NOT in support of free speech.

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Except people are calling to torch refugee homes and for violence against refugees, and refugee homes have been attacked and/or torched, more than 800 this year. At least one person was killed in these attacks. That's far beyond where free speech ends.
Making a racist statement is something completely different than telling you to go out and torch someones home.

The latter encourages you to actually commit a criminal act, while the first is just an opinion that you might dislike or not and therefore criticise.