The past days and weeks and months have revealed what many people mean when they claim to believe in freedom.

They don’t *really* want freedom.

They want a kind of carefully curated Disney-like echo chamber

If you don’t want freedom for those who say things you find objectionable, you don’t believe in freedom.

Likewise if you don’t want freedom for religious thought you don’t like. Or small, sometimes odd churches or synagogues that are socially unacceptable.

Freedom is often messy, often unpleasant, often something we’d rather not deal with. But that’s the nature of freedom. And people who don’t want freedom should be honest and admit it.