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Agreed Rafe. In retrospect, it seems clear that what some of those involved in the Berkeley movement wanted was freedom for their speech, and to agitate for their causes, rather than free speech for all.

This article is worth a read https://respvblica.com/2017/09/12/why-are-we-here-berkeleys-free-speech-movement-was-a-fraud/

The author contends that:

'In short, the Free Speech Movement was a movement to free Berkeley, and finally all American universities, from the mature decency which had kept such destructive, totalitarian movements from burrowing their way into the fabric of higher education — and silencing their enemies. “Free speech for me — but not for thee,” as the late Nat Hentoff famously titled his iconic 1992 book.'