The drama over the AP and the Gulf of Mexico may seem relatively trivial. It is not. Free speech includes the right to be free from compelled speech. To compel speech is to force someone to attest to something they do not believe to be true. The Gulf of Mexico does not become the Gulf of America just because a person in power says that i…
The drama over the AP and the Gulf of Mexico may seem relatively trivial. It is not. Free speech includes the right to be free from compelled speech. To compel speech is to force someone to attest to something they do not believe to be true. The Gulf of Mexico does not become the Gulf of America just because a person in power says that it is so. Compelled speech is an attempt to compel thought. We have always been at war with Eurasia. Right? There was a Supreme Court case that involved a rule that required Jehovah’s Witnesses high school students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. The Court ruled for the students, stating: 'Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard”
The drama over the AP and the Gulf of Mexico may seem relatively trivial. It is not. Free speech includes the right to be free from compelled speech. To compel speech is to force someone to attest to something they do not believe to be true. The Gulf of Mexico does not become the Gulf of America just because a person in power says that it is so. Compelled speech is an attempt to compel thought. We have always been at war with Eurasia. Right? There was a Supreme Court case that involved a rule that required Jehovah’s Witnesses high school students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. The Court ruled for the students, stating: 'Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard”