I remember the “free speech movement” from the 1960s. I was young, and didn’t fully grasp it all, but I wasn’t too sure about it. Of course, Berkeley and free speech became associated with each other in mainstream. One of the top grossing films of 1986 had it as a throwaway line.
History didn’t change. Leftists were never about free speech, just wanting their way, and woe be unto you if you disagreed in any way.
“I was young, and didn’t fully grasp it all…” I didn’t get it either, mainly (I believe) because they called it the “free speech movement” but it was really about taking over power from the administration and giving it to the counter-cultural, protester types. More of a coup than a movement.
The left has always been about “free speech for me not for thee”, victimization and alienation. Not to mention propaganda. No one expects the lefts propaganda but then not one expected the Spanish Inquisition. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
When the word “free” is in there, they can’t help themselves, they have to be for it as long as it’s them getting it and not paying for it.
“A little too much LDS” means that the Mormons have been visiting your house too often, I think.