Source: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
by Jim Naureckas
“In The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow note that the Western notion of freedom derives from the Roman legal tradition, in which freedom was conceived as ‘the power of the male household head in ancient Rome, who could do whatever he liked with his chattels and possessions, including his children and slaves.’ Because of this, ‘freedom was always defined (at least potentially) as something exercised to the cost of others.’ You have to understand this notion of freedom (that to be free, you have to make someone else less free) to make sense of the idea that Donald Trump is a champion of ‘free speech.’ This is, unfortunately, not a fringe idea.” (03/05/25)
https://fair.org/home/trumps-protest-threat-reflects-belief-that-free-speech-belongs-to-some/