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Shouting Fire

So I recently watched a really good documentary called Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech. It is all about free speech and it is really well done. There was one story that really struck me all about an arabic school in New York. New York public school system has many schools for languages for certain culture ie. Chinese, Japanese, etc. The school system had started to line up the opening of an Arabic school, they hired a female American-Arabic principal and the school was almost set to launch, some false facts were going around within the public that the school would not just be practicing the arabic language, but Muslim religion. This was not the case, but becasue of all the allegations, the school board postponed the opening and hired a new, white principle who cannot even speak arabic to communicate with new families to the country. Is this right? Another story was one of a pride day at a high school. The day was to support gays in their school. One teen boy wore a shirt with tape on it and written sharpie was a bible verse talking about how man and woman should be together, and on the other side of his shirt said that being gay was wrong. You may think, oh that is terrible of fim, especially no a pride day, but think, is he not just excerising his right to free speech? If you are going to support free speech, it must be from both sides even if you do not agree, or not at all.