Freedom of speech, for whom?

The question has come up repeatedly, even before a torch-wielding mob of white supremacists marched across the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The next day, Heather Heyer was killed, police say, after a Nazi sympathizer drove his car into a group protesting the Unite the Right event.

The University of Florida in Gainesville was the latest testing ground Thursday. The organizer of the Unite the Right event, Richard Spencer, was giving his first speech since Charlottesville. Florida's Republican governor called a state of emergency. More than 500 police officers were on campus, and the Florida National Guard was mobilized. Security costs were estimated at $500,000.

Only people who “look like” "alt-right" supporters were to be allowed inside, the sheriff’s department told reporters. The racist overtones were not lost on students, who braced for violence. Spencer's National Policy Institute reportedly determined which journalists could come in.

Some on the left want limits on what they deem hate speech. Some on the right want limits on what they consider unpatriotic speech. Pocket-sized editions of the United States Constitution have become fashionable accessories, though sometimes they appear to be more brandished than read.

On Thursday, a former president spoke to the document’s principles. “People of every race, religion, ethnicity can be fully and equally American,” George W. Bush said in Dallas. “It means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed.”

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