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[T]he genuinely oppressed—as opposed to the hustlers of faux outrage—have always known freedom of speech to be their best friend.

— Allen C. Guelzo on Freedom of speech

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[T]he genuinely oppressed—as opposed to the hustlers of faux outrage—have always known freedom of speech to be their best friend." in the context of "Allen C. Guelzo, "Free Speech and Its Present Crisis: In today’s America, the right to express one’s opinion is threatened by activists and authorities alike." (October 2018), City Journal" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Allen C. Guelzo

About Allen C. Guelzo

Allen Carl Guelzo (born 1953) is an American historian.