This is an editorial about free speech and how it’s a core American value to protect words used in public debate — even if we abhor those very words. In fact, we need to fight harder to protect words we detest if we say we truly are for free speech. Censoring words — even words we hate — leads us away from freedom and towards fascism.

So imagine what people think when they hear that a South Carolina college professor was fired this week for saying that tragically slain political activist Charlie Kirk was “awful” and “not a good person.”

You wouldn’t be surprised, right? Because those hard words about a dead man piss you off, right? Except get this: A professor didn’t say those words. Kirk did, when speaking about another tragically slain activist — the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

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