"On Monday, the US attorney general the official in charge of the rule of law in America said that the Trump administration would absolutely target those who espouse hate speech about Kirk. Unlike in many other countries, hate speech is protected by US law unless it incites imminent violence or constitutes a true threat. But that did not deter the nation's top law enforcement officer, who also suggested that for example a print shop employee who refused to print flyers memorializing Kirk could be prosecuted."
"It is a remarkable turn from prominent American conservatives, who until Trump's return to power in January had long complained of a censorious leftwing cancel culture but now seem happy to reframe that, too, as consequence culture. Nancy Mace, a House representative, sounded a lot like the progressives she has often decried for their political correctness when she declared last week, during an effort to censure one of her opponents in Congress, that free speech isn't free from consequences."
After Charlie Kirk's killing, the US attorney general said the Trump administration would target people who espouse hate speech about Kirk, even suggesting a print shop employee who declined to print memorial flyers could be prosecuted. US law generally protects hate speech unless it incites imminent violence or constitutes a true threat. Conservative leaders including Trump, Vice-President JD Vance and Stephen Miller framed Kirk's death as resulting from unchecked, violent rhetoric by the left. Some conservatives reversed earlier positions about cancel culture, arguing that speech can have legal and employment consequences, and launched campaigns to fire those who mocked or disparaged Kirk.
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