Free Speech (with caps) is not the same as being able to say whatever you want wherever you want with social and cultural impunity. The free speech clause of t

Free Speech (with caps) is not the same as being able to say whatever you want wherever you want with social and cultural impunity. The free speech clause of the 1st amendment means that the government won't enact laws that punish someone for saying rude, hateful, bigoted, or inflammatory things. This does not preclude a person's family, school, workplace, business, or any other group they're a part of from punishing or excluding them for breaking rules about behavior that is appropriate to the group. The difference is that those are rules, not laws. You can go to jail for breaking laws. You won't go to jail for breaking rules, but there can certainly be other consequences. People have to choose whether it is worth following the rules to be a part of the group that made them. One can always quit and find a new group. Sadly, the same cannot usually be said for one's government.