dragonwriter nails it on the first point. On your points about free speech: there are legal carve-outs from free speech in the US. You can read more about them

dragonwriter nails it on the first point. On your points about free speech: there are legal carve-outs from free speech in the US. You can read more about them here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exceptions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce... And regarding silencing, sure, things are much better than they were 20 years ago. But that doesn't mean we should push for them to be better. Also: please note that you're misinterpreting my words. I never said that anyone is a "horrible, shitty person." You can be a little racist and be a wonderful person. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive. Racism, is not an on-off switch, it's a spectrum.