Source: Antiwar.com
by Joseph D Terwilliger
“The same conservatives who erupted in fury when YouTube suspended Senator Rand Paul for questioning mask mandates, and who whined when universities blocked conservative speakers for ‘security reasons,’ are the same ones now cheering when ICE uses an obscure Cold War-era immigration law to deport a Turkish grad student for writing an op-ed. Apparently, the First Amendment is sacrosanct until someone with the wrong accent has a dangerous idea. The same people who once called this ‘cancel culture’ now call it ‘law and order.’ Which brings us to the larger point. Conservatives once ridiculed campus ‘safe spaces.’ Now they want speech banned because it makes them feel unsafe. They mocked trigger warnings and microaggressions, but now they want slogans banned, students expelled, and foreigners jailed. It’s funny how fast ‘suck it up, buttercup’ becomes ‘call the cops’ when someone else is holding the megaphone. Who are the snowflakes now?” (05/13/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/joseph_terwilliger/2025/05/12/free-speech-for-me-deportation-for-thee/