Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University Law Center student who was unfairly and repeatedly excoriated by Rush Limbaugh as a \"slut\" for advocating that contraception be routinely included in healthcare coverage isn't a friend of free speech, it turns out. <\/p>\n
In the New York Sunday Times Magazine, she makes several statements that suggest that, while she disagrees with what Limbaugh says, she certainly won't defend his right to say it (as Evelyn Beatrice Hall once suggested Voltaire might). <\/p>\n
In fact, she says she regards unpopular speech as \"problematic\" and not worthy of protection by the federal government, at least when the feds take the form of the FCC the agency that's charged (officially, at least) with the preservation free speech on the radio. <\/p>\n
In her interview with Andrew Goldman, she says: <\/p>\n
First, let's give Fluke the benefit of the doubt. The Times has a history of misquoting people in its Sunday Mag interview slot, so who knows what Fluke's true sentiments are. <\/p>\n
Having said that, Fluke -- who is 30 and therefore does not get an undergraduate pass -- should know better. <\/p>\n
Taking her points in order: <\/p>\n
In the interview, Fluke says she grew up in a conservative Christian household and came to feminism late, after taking a women's studies class at college that she thought she'd disagree with. Conservative Christians are, bar Muslims, arguably the most censorious, anti-free speech community in America. So let's hope Fluke continues to stray even further, intellectually, from her roots. <\/p>\n
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