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    "title": "Freedom of Expression Means Self-Control -- For The Audience",
    "author": "pmjones",
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            "title": "Civil Rights",
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    "created": "2012-09-29 13:47:41 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>If a Republican physically attacked a Democrat, or a Democrat a Republican, after one said something with which the other strongly disagreed, would it be any defense for the attacker to say, \u00e2\u0080\u009cHe knew perfectly well that I detested his views\u00e2\u0080\u009d? Freedom of expression requires not so much the exercise of self-control in what is said as its exercise in reaction to what is said. I can hardly look at a book these days without taking offense at something that it contains, but if I smash a window in annoyance, the blame is only mine--even if the author knows perfectly well that what he wrote will offend many such as I.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://www.city-journal.org/2012/eon0926td.html\">Freedom of Expression, Without the Expression by Theodore Dalrymple - City Journal</a></em>.</p>\n"
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