I remember how much Muslims were lectured about the importance of a right to offend being part of a right to free speech.
We were told that we must accept offensive and racist remarks about our faith, our Prophet, etc, in the name of free speech and integrating into 'Western civilization'. Voltaire and the rest.
Those same folks who lectured Muslims are now saying to people that they cannot be offensive about a dead conservative influencer - and they will be punished if they do so. Even if being offensive in one's speech is literally what the First Amendment guarantees.
Oh, the hypocrisy. Oh, the gaslighting.