Since clairobscur is continuing his arguments in the ATMB thread, I’m just going to quote him here rather than argue this in two threads:
I am in absolute agreement. I just differ as to which casualties I find acceptable.
clairobscur is willing to throw whole classes of oppressed minorities under the bus of idealistic “free” speech (which is *always *limited anyway). I’m willing to throw Nazis, racists and homophobes under the bus of specific hate speech laws. You know what? I’m totally OK with that.