No , it ' s not a common argument directly . The thing is that right wingers want to get rid of human rights law which is where freedom of expression is contained . The thing is that they only want human rights to be effective when racists are being imprisoned for hurling racial abuse at Muslim women in the street . They don ' t want human rights when it protects people against the right . They don ' t want human rights that prevent them sending refugees to their death . They don ' t want them when it means protecting disabled people from starvation . They don ' t want them when it means nondiscrimination in job applications . They don ' t want them when it stops British soldiers from gunning down children . They only want the right to scream racial abuse at people . The right to send rape threats to twitter feminists . There are legitimate concerns about freedom of speech in certain cases in the U . K . I will readily agree with that . The issue is that the right want that but then they spend the rest of their time arguing against human rights . I ' m sort of of the opinion that if you campaign to remove the human rights of others then you don ' t really deserve them yourself . That ' s not to say that right wingers shouldn ' t have human rights , but since they don ' t want others to have them , I can ' t get worked up about the odd Nazi getting fined .