Either we have freedom of speech or we don't. If we have it, both popular and unpopular, sacred and profane, beautiful and disgusting thoughts will be expressed.
Having freedom of speech is better than not having it.
The current contrived outrage over the Confederate flag should be no surprise after decades of politicians trying to teach us to use our government to get redress for imagined victimization. For pity's sake, the last legal slave owner and the last legal slave in the country have both been in the ground for a long time.
If we want to succeed as a country, we really ought to stop the social crusades to impose correctness on people we don't agree with. bingo
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered."
― George Orwell, 1984
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