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Most of the time people bring up "free speech", its when free speech isn't even being threatened: they're just being told their opinions are bad or people don't want them to get paid for expressing those bad opinions. If your defense of your statements is focused on the free speech aspect, its because you don't have a reasonable justification. Those who campaigned against slavery defended their positions with arguments about why slavery is bad instead of saying slavery should be abolished otherwise you're violating my free speech.