A student at the University of California–Santa Barbara wrote an op-ed calling for the United States to do away with the First Amendment. “In today’s age, with the third KKK movement and the kneeling during the national anthem, there is no doubt that the freedom of speech has been stretched way too thin,” Emma Xing writes in an essay for the school’s student newspaper, the Daily Nexus, titled “America’s Need to Reevaluate Free Speech.” “With two different ends of the spectrum, there should be a fine line where free speech stops being a right and starts being a threat to the very idea of America,” she continues ...

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UC Student Op-Ed: America Must ‘Reevaluate Free Speech’

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A student at the University of California–Santa Barbara wrote an op-ed calling for the United States to do away with the First Amendment. “In today’s age, with the third KKK movement and the kneeling during the national anthem, there is no doubt that the freedom of speech has been stretched way too thin,” Emma Xing...

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