Why is it...

the only people crying "free speech" are the ones who have it? Everyone concerned with "free speech" is looking to protect his own speech without recognizing that by exercising some forms of speech, he is infringing upon the rights of others. We don't have access to the same platforms -- basic understandings of the history and culture of this country would tell you that. After all, the same Constitution that guarantees free speech also wrote women out of it in 1868 (although it was never intended that "we the people" were female) and actually defined slaves as 3/5 of a person. The 3/5 clause was written out with the Fourteenth Amendment; women were written into citizenship with the 19th amendment in 1920.

Your right to free speech should not curtail mine.

But then again, the issues may be bigger than free speech. Don't let people send up the free speech smoke screen and convince you that you don't have the right to hostile-free workplace and learning environment and that you must be subject to student fees to pay for your own humiliation and intimidation. Concede the free speech right to print whatever crap they want in the newspaper; demand responsibility for that action! We all have rights at stake here. They want First Amendment? Respond with Fourteenth Amendment. We all have rights.