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Spot on disingenuous is exactly right.
This is free speech being exercised on both sides.
The right of “free speech” is just that the government can’t arrest you for it, it’s got nothing to do with a private business stocking a record.
It also ignores the paradox of free speech. Should someone who wants to murder all white people be allowed to preach this on the streets. Is it true freedom if it makes the lives of others less free?
"You cannot enjoy the advantages of a free press without putting up with its inconveniences. You cannot pluck the rose without its thorns!" —Karl Marx
That's about all he had to say about free speech, he was more for freedom of the people and raising up those in poverty to a position where their speech mattered.
What definition of Marxism is your intellect labouring under to come up with 'weaponised attacks' in the context of a private business owner choosing to not stock a record?
"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal."
Karl Popper, Jewish philosopher who fled from Nazis in the 1930s
A nice justification of silencing voices you don't agree with for you.