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Can any of us ever disagree without always trying to make our point be the point that matters most? Can we be free to have that kind of speech?

Writer Ken Makin walks readers through history today, considering the violence that took an activist鈥檚 life last week, and the fallout from it. That fallout has included throngs of people, including professors and a journalist from The Washington Post, Karen Attiah, who lost her job, for otherwise thinking that they and she could speak freely in the United States. Although free speech isn鈥檛 always accepted speech, and doesn鈥檛 always go without punishment, we can reject attempts to silence those speaking about a murder, and abhor the actual murder at the same time.