A friend says: I think it is worth observing with all the goings on about trigger warnings, micro-agressions, hate speech and the like, that the first persons in the 20th Century to claim the right to shut down discussions they disagreed with were Jews who wanted any questioning of the holocaust to be banned. In fact Holocaust denial remains a crime in some European countries. The ADL was the first group that decided that it would go on the offense when any “anti semitism” regardless of how slight comes to light.
Then there were the Christians like John Calvin in the 16th Century who had a man burned at the stake for denying the Trinity.
