re freedom in u s a in apr virginia edu ab z virginia edu andi beyer wrote jaa cunixa cc columbia edu writes dear mr beyer it is never wise to confuse freedom of speech with freedom of racism and violent deragatory it is unfortunate that many fail to understand this crucial distinction in fact if a speach was not offensive to some its protection under freedom of speach laws would be useless it is speach that some find questionable that must be protected be it religiously blasphemous or inherently racist it is only through civilized discourse and not scare tactics that one can enlighten those that one perceives to be ignorant that is the idea behind freedom of expression what you find offensive might be perceived as truth by some and what they might find offensive might be your belief it is only through free exchange of ideas and insults as the case seems to be with this channel that one can change another s erring ways that is why jefferson said that here we are not afraid to tolerate error so long as reason is left to combat it does this mean that you are volunteering to wade through the mutlu argic deluge that comes in every day some of us are tired of being dragged into content free pissing contests with reflexive bigots we intensely dislike being stuck between letting this crap pass without comment as though it were unremarkable and replying to it and getting sucked in again let s keep some perspective here imho the josh s policy of forwarding the garbage in question without comment to the relevant sysadmin strikes a good balance the stuff was after all published on a public forum from that very site yet hardly a matter of confidentiality or copyright if the local administration wants to do something about it they have that right if not nobody s twisting their arms d c sessions speaking for myself note new network address dcs witsend tnet com author and everything else of tmail dos mail news shell
