> Consider these statements: > Jesus is not the son of God. All nonbelievers are evil and going to hell. Pornography is morally acceptable. Women should be for

> Consider these statements: > Jesus is not the son of God. All nonbelievers are evil and going to hell. Pornography is morally acceptable. Women should be forced to wear hijabs. American veterans who fought in Iraq are war criminals. The detainees at Guantánamo Bay deserved to be tortured. Capitalism is inherently exploitative, and all wealthy people are morally compromised. Communism is an evil, totalitarian ideology that killed millions of people. The biggest problem with this analysis is that it treats the speech as separate from the power and reach of the person saying them, downplaying the utterances as just information detached from the real world context in which they are used. On any given day, you can probably find a mentally ill person on the streets shouting a number of those things, but people aren't listening. When someone with significant influence, as Yiannapolis was, starts spurting bigotries and abusive speech, the scrutiny on their speech should be greater.