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by nitsky 1949 days ago
There are many Americans who understand that the first amendment protects bad behavior, but support it nonetheless. Their support usually boils down to:

1. The alternative, censorship, is worse when it inevitably is turned against you.

2. Even if censorship is better, it violates individual rights, which are sacred and cannot be abridged except in a narrow range of cases.

It is possible that people with viewpoints that differ from your own are not “wrong”, they just have different values.