>>109369272It does in fact mean that you need to tolerate it, or even respect their right (yes, not privilege, right) to say it. The explicit writ of freedom of speech is the freedom of consequences from your speech.
Calling someone a fuckass because they had a bad take is fine. Organizing a lynchmob to destroy their life is literal vigilantism, which is ironically more of a crime than dropping an N-bomb on twitter.
Tumblrpoisoned social media culture has deluded itself into thinking that the systematic deplatforming wrongthinkers is fine as long as the mob doing it has the correct opinion about whatever culture war topic is in vogue, which is deeply concerning because that kind of delusion is commonplace among shithole 3rd world autocracies where freedom and human dignity are the corrupting values of the decadent west but you'd expect people who speak english as a first language to understand how important freedom of expression is to proactive participation in public discourse. But that's the quiet part out loud: you're not supposed to participate, you're supposed to be afraid of the blackshirts and stay home and stay quiet and let your voice and your politics be steered by whichever vocal minority is the most prepared to legitimize institutional violence in the interest of "keeping the peace"
You know, like a certain funny italian man
