{"id":5011,"date":"2015-08-16T10:23:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T14:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=5011"},"modified":"2015-08-16T10:23:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T14:23:57","slug":"the-lefts-problem-with-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/the-lefts-problem-with-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"The left&#8217;s problem with Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The progressive left has never been a fan of the whole &#8220;Freedom of Speech&#8221; thing. \u00a0Oh, they sing it&#8217;s praises as long as they are the ones doing the talking, but as soon as anybody else tries to express an opinion they disagree with, it&#8217;s all &#8220;hate speech&#8221;, or not &#8220;politically correct&#8221;, or the current favorite, &#8220;racist.&#8221; \u00a0It&#8217;s even worse on what should be bastions of free expression, college campuses. \u00a0There they have &#8220;Speech Codes&#8221;, and &#8220;Free Speech Zones.&#8221; \u00a0Neither of which seem to apply to anyone who is spouting the far left&#8217;s extremist agenda.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The progressive left has never been a fan of the whole &#8220;Freedom of Speech&#8221; thing. \u00a0Oh, they sing it&#8217;s praises as long as they are the ones doing the talking, but as soon as anybody else tries to express an opinion they disagree with, it&#8217;s all &#8220;hate speech&#8221;, or not &#8220;politically correct&#8221;, or the current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,45,19,20],"tags":[342,479,480,621,631],"class_list":["post-5011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barking-moonbats","category-free-speech-politics","category-politics","category-progressives","tag-free-speech","tag-leftist-hate-speech","tag-leftist-hypocrisy","tag-politics","tag-progressive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-1iP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}