[tomp]

> In this case it means giving a voice to a racist advocate of slavery.

The alternative is to give voice to an almost-militant group of bullies bent on oppressing opinions of people whe don't think like them.

Only one of these positions is logically internally consistent.

[danharaj]

What does "almost-militant" mean?

[tomp]

It means that, if I believed in the concept of "verbal assault" or "verbal violence", they would be equivalent to a militant terrorist group, planning and executing organized attacks.

[PhasmaFelis]

It sounds like it means "I feel threatened by these people's views even though they've shown no interest in physically acting on them." Which is kind of ironic, given the context.