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Rule of being a free speech absolutist
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this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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He never claimed to be an absolutist. He never planned in allowing things like vioent threats, for example.
And he's right about those terms - they are used as slurs to shut down discussion. It's a quick and easy way to belittle someone and trivialize their argument.
Here he is making that exact claim in 2022 before deleting it once it became inconvenient