Democratic Rep. Cori Bush that was wrongly attributed to Sen. Richard Burr. Townhall regrets the error.
“Some people’s idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage,” observed Winston Churchill.
And, may I add, that the one outraged is transformed into a tyrant when he yokes government power to his outrage.
This summer, we witnessed months of violence called speech, presaged by higher education’s obsession with micro-aggressive speech and our nation’s obsession with the virus of fear, and premised on the false belief that government can, and must, keep us safe from all discomforts and all potential harms.