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mloutre Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-08 07:20 PM
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237. Oh, quit with the gratuitous trolling about "freedom of speech" already.
As the classic example goes, "your right to throw a punch ends at the start of my nose."

Freedom of speech definitely means having the right to prove what a clueless bigoted asshole one might be.

When that free speech crosses into the realm of bigoted hate speech, it might get a little dicey.

I don't think this totally stoopid (not to mention insanely overpriced) t-shirt crosses that line, though.

On the other paw, I don't think that non-clueless non-bigoted others taking serious umbrage with the clueless bigoted asshole who was wearing that totally stoopid t-shirt is an assault on the First Amendment to the Constitution, either.

Nor, for that matter, is attacking the reputation and, one hopes, the economic success of the even more clueless more bigoted bigger asshole who made that shirt and those comments, either.

So... your off-the-beam trolling on this particular angle is as pathetic as it is meaningless, ahem.


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