[rnk]

There is such a thing as hateful speech. The people who yelled the n word at football games at the opposing team when I was in college, that's just ok with you? No issue? Abhorrent maybe? My semi-integrated high school had a semi-racist 'school song' too, sung before every game or pep rally.

I'm from the deep south, perhaps you are too, but there is definitely a thing known as hate speech, and there's definitely a thing where the leaders of a town are happy to keep black people down, including using derogatory words. Their speech reflects their views on life. I disagree that we are improved as a society for them being able to make such comments in the public sphere.

[drnonsense42]

If that were in any way even remotely representative of what is being defined as hate speech and weaponized, you might have a point. Tangentially, I’ve noticed a few occasions where rule enforcement for racial slurs seem to get bent quite often for the right democrats. Hard to trust the gavel-wielding infant cabal when there are multiple sets of rules. This is why free speech exists, so the bad apples in California don’t poison the rest of the tree.