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    Quote Originally Posted by kfrost06 View Post
    Liberalism must silence their opposition, free-thinkers club doesn not want people to think on their own, they want to force their views and only their views on others.
    I don't believe you can generalize by calling these people liberals. Liberals (at least in my understanding of the meaning of the word) believe in personal liberty and the autonomy of the individual and standing for the protection of political and civil liberties. Freedom of speech is undoubtebtly a political and civil liberty. I'm not sure what to call them. I consider myself a social liberal (who is fiscally conservative) but won't stand for squashing of the freedom of speech. Anti-abortionists have just as much right to protest the allowance of abortion as supporters protest any move to strike it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wantmoremass View Post
    I don't believe you can generalize by calling these people liberals. Liberals (at least in my understanding of the meaning of the word) believe in personal liberty and the autonomy of the individual and standing for the protection of political and civil liberties. Freedom of speech is undoubtebtly a political and civil liberty. I'm not sure what to call them. I consider myself a social liberal (who is fiscally conservative) but won't stand for squashing of the freedom of speech. Anti-abortionists have just as much right to protest the allowance of abortion as supporters protest any move to strike it.
    You're thinking of classical liberals, which are almost the polar opposite what liberal means today. The meaning of the term liberal has drastically changed since FDR's presidency.

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