Letters to the Editor
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What is free speech?
When and how did personal assault, attacking someone's physical or sexual nature, someone's ethnicity get equated with "free speech"? Why is it that people can't make their points without resorting to attacks on someone's gender or race or ethnicity or sexual orientation? It isn't just white, straight males who do this sort of thing either. Everyone does it. How is that that kind of speech has been raised to the bar of "free speech"? So that when someone wants to control or curtail the occurrences of such speech, they're attacked for attacking "free speech"? When did ignorant, hateful, disrespectful, ad hominen speech become equated with "free speech" rights?
I have no issue with speech that focuses on someone's opinion, ideas, beliefs (including religious ones), political affiliation, et. al., but speech that denigrates someone's physical features or race or sexual nature or gender is just good old fashioned bad manners. I think those of you defending those things as "free speech" are confused.