> The US has a long culture of endorsing freedom of speech in public so long as you're the right color/gender/sexuality/faith/wealth status for the particular

> The US has a long culture of endorsing freedom of speech in public so long as you're the right color/gender/sexuality/faith/wealth status for the particular time and place in question (and it applies in every direction -- there is stuff you effectively cannot say in rural Alabama just like there's stuff you effectively cannot say in lower Manhattan). This has always been the case and is in fact itself a component of free speech: other people are allowed to call you an idiot fuck and not associate with you.