"The First Amendment restricts what the government can do to your speech, and Jews, Muslims, and all minorities are the biggest beneficiaries of this bedrock American value. But I am not the U.S. government, and the First Amendment does not police who I invite in, or ban, from my home. Macklemore is exceedingly lucky to live in America, where he has rights and freedoms millions of people around the world can only dream of. And it’s precisely because he lives here that he has the right to hold uninformed and wrongheaded views, and to share them with others. What he doesn’t have a right to is my stadium. Nobody does. That’s not censorship, it’s freedom, my freedom." That’s how Robert Kraft should have responded, writes @DGreenbaum.

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"The brain rot that has begun to define this generation has allowed a terrifying irony: many were silent while Hamas slaughtered concertgoers yet found their energy to speak out when I exercised my right to ban a musician from my own stage." tabletmag.com/sections/commu…
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Ed Sheeran simply asked if he could not go on rants about Israel at his show, and it's Ed Sheeran's show! This is not a free speech issue. This is not censorship.
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No one spoke out when Hamas was prohibiting performers and forbidding certain music from being played….
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We all have to draw a moral line, disallowing eliminationist hate to be espoused and sanitized within polite society. If we don't make this hate TABOO again, as we did to marginalize and defeat the KKK, it will normalize and destroy the West.
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