> But are you really gonna die on this hill?
Yep, its tasteless, but the alternative allow folks like you to edit what I read and eventually think. I rather deal with the filth then the sterile world of what is acceptable to you with only approved targets of derision and protest. Being in fear of every word uttered to be outside the bounds for some person who might hear would be the purest kind of horror.
Freedom of speech is there to protect the ugly not shine the widely accepted.
> And don't give me any of those "slippery slope" arguments.
Why not? Since that is the whole course of history. People don't lose rights overnight, it comes one drop at a time.
I don't think most people that are happy about the rule would find the particular actor or action sympathetic; you fight for free speech not because the actor is popular or sympathetic, but because you might need it when you and your actions are not popular or sympathetic.