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Caitlin Flanagan on Free Speech and America’s Future

The Good Fight

What Is the Difference Between Free Speech and Social Justice?

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In the early sixties, students at San Francisco's University took over sprowl hall. They showed gay pornography in a basement and said it was OK to be sexual. The free speech movement started on campuses around the country. Ando i think they also kind of did it because it was the most shocking thing they could imagine. These kids could have had a really comfortable, sweet life going to a free, beautiful university across the glittering bay from san francisco. But they said, no, we are going to throw ourselves on the gears and lebers of the machine because we are americans and we have the right to free speech.

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