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I'll bet that if someone called you a pearl-clutching 1A fetishist that just wanted to groom children, you would--rightly--argue that no, civil rights like the ability to read books about gender identity and sexuality are protected civil rights that the gov't shouldn't touch.
Or if someone said that if you have nothing to hide, then you should care if the gov't spies on you, you would tell them to fuck off and come back with a warrant.
...But as soon as it's a civil right you don't personally like, well, then it's ammosexuals and murder fetishes.
The right is already trying to take your 1A rights in regards to press and religion--and largely succeeding!--but by golly!, you're gonna just hand them your 2A rights so that when they finish taking your 1A and 5A rights you won't be able to do dick except say mean things in public that will get you arrested on domestic terrorism charges (see also: cop city protests in Atlanta).
Cool, nice chat.