3 thoughts on “Someone Else Gets It”

  1. Oh good grief — would everyone get it right?

    What matters is what Holmes actually wrote and meant.

    “It’s Time to Stop Using the ‘Fire in a Crowded Theater’ Quote”

    * https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-time-to-stop-using-the-fire-in-a-crowded-theater-quote/264449/

    [SNIP]
    Ninety-three years ago, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote what is perhaps the most well-known — yet misquoted and misused — phrase in Supreme Court history: “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.”

    1. Oh good grief back at’cha. I know how to get it right. I didn’t cite Holmes in my old piece because I was repeating what the antis say. When I DID cite Holmes I explained his “conveniently misstated quote”:

      “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.” [Emphasis added]

  2. Mr Administrator,
    This is a nice upgrade, David.

    I meant everyone else. Excluding you.

    I’ve been reading WOG for some years, and the now old KABA before that, so I know we know Holmes. He was the most celebrated Progressive Justice on the court in SCOTUS history.

    The Atlantic piece is funny in part because it fails to mention that.

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