It's less of an equation and more of a counter example for how absurdly oversimplified and privileged the position of "just ignore it" is. >Yes the solution to

It's less of an equation and more of a counter example for how absurdly oversimplified and privileged the position of "just ignore it" is. >Yes the solution to racist speech is to just ignore it. Citation needed. As a foreigner living in Germany it's pretty obvious they've drawn different conclusions than that. I'll also point out that there is nothing obvious about how free speech is defined (by Americans). There's obviously limits to speech, it's just been delineated into the constitutional "free speech" and the colloquial notion of "free speech". Which you seem to be conflating (or assuming that I care about). The OP is squarely about the more colloquial understanding of the word.