&gt; Personally I advocate total free-speech, the good with the bad, so that we can enjoy unrestricted debate.<p>I generally agree but I think that, as always, reality is too complex to address with a simple logical statement. Consider this example: A room in an almost all white small town, with a history of discrimination, of 20 white people and one black person, discussing some policy issue. A white person says, &#x27;N-&#x27;s don&#x27;t belong in this town; they should keep their mouths shut.&#x27; If you are the black person, that&#x27;s a very intimidating situation. I&#x27;m not sure I support &#x27;free speech&#x27; there.<p>That might sound extreme, but many schools are not more than 1&#x2F;20th black and from what the news says about U. of Missouri, behavior like that isn&#x27;t rare. This isn&#x27;t insults, it&#x27;s intimidation. It&#x27;s scary enough at 18 years old to venture out of your neighborhood into a almost all-white world, where people suspect you of crime when you just walk into a store. Where you are the &#x27;The Black Man&#x2F;Woman&#x27; in every room you enter, all day long.<p>Generally I approach it this way: The only speech I won&#x27;t tolerate is intolerance itself. (But of course, reality still isn&#x27;t that simple.)