Comment Re:A republican in favor of free speech ? (Score 1) 467
Your freedom of opinion does not INCLUDE the freedom to think I or anybody else is less than you. It ends before you can intrude on my right. Nobody has the right not to be offended, but you damn sure have the right not be a victim of racist behavior INCLUDING slurs.
How the hell is what I THINK or even for that matter SAY in any conceivable way an intrusion on your rights? I wholeheartedly agree that racist ACTIONS, real and tangible infractions on your human rights, should be restricted by law...but as you yourself say, freedom from offense isn't a right, and I entirely fail to see how thoughts and speech can almost ever rise to anything more than mere offense*.
* - cf. Brandenburg v. Ohio; "[T]he constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action."