The common MO amongst right wingers is they claim that dissidents like Mahmoud Khalil is a “guest” and therefore they believe that he should not have the right to criticize the government.

What is your view on this?

Edit: Mr. Khalil has a Green Card btw, just to clarify.

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    That depends on if we consider Thomas Paine a founding father or a criminal speaker.

    Free speech means you can speak freely

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      Free free speech hasn’t existed in the US for a long, long time.

      Sure you can quip jokes, sure you can call names, you can protest a little bit here and there.

      But try being a student and protest, it may actually get you killed or deported or just disappeared.

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        You say that but I was a student protestor a decade ago and it wasn’t this bad. And regardless just because our government is violating the law and our nation’s fundamental ideology (liberty and democracy) and has been for some time doesn’t mean we shouldn’t call them out on it