How to Make a Racist a Free-Speech Martyr
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Shiloh Hendrix went viral when she screamed the n-word on a playground. Now she’s been convicted of disorderly conduct, despite her awful actions being covered by the First Amendment.
Conspiracy theories and gunshot TikTok trends have overwhelmed the right’s hagiography.
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In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder, the NFL was holding moments of silence, Ezra Klein was waxing about how he was ‘practicing politics the right way,” and criticizing Kirk online could get you fired. Now, as the trial of Tyler Robinson, Kirk’s alleged killer, begins, something has replaced that reverence.
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