Civics: in prays of the US First Amendment
America’s first amendment, the constitutional right to free speech, including the right to “misinformation” and even “hate speech”, has proven a surprisingly effective and resilient bulwark against the new rise of censorship and blasphemy laws gaining steam across the Atlantic.
That’s what the song is on about with “but at least I know I’m free”!
Now, I’m not an American. But I sure am becoming a lot more appreciative of the core principles my adopted country was founded on. (While keeping my eyes wide open to all its trade-offs and contradictions.)
Americans should be proud of these principles. Whatever the age, there’ll always be blasphemous talk, offensive jokes, mean insults, and wild conspiracy theories (that occasionally turn out to be true!). I’d much rather live in a country that embraces everyone’s right to BE FULL OF SHIT than one that pretends it can declare a priori what’s true and what’s false or one that makes false equivalences between violence and speech
