No, but it's close enough for our purposes. They main difference is that you have not the power to forbid them. If you had, you might have gone the full way. There are, after all, many politically correct prohibitions in place in a few western cultures that made it into law.
>Freedom of speech is not freedom from criticism.
Criticism of the other's _way of speaking_, instead of criticism of their ideas, borders, as I say above, with censorship.
>I find amusing that you ended it with a quote which more accurately describes your own actions. I hold no illusion that cultures vary or that equality is far from a law of nature
Yes, but apparently you still hold the illusion that your (culture's) way is the one that has achieved the more equality, and that the method your culture has chosen to deal with equality is the correct one.
Which is kind of amusing from a culture with, say, an embarrassingly disproportionate percentage of their black population in jail.
I find amusing that you ended it with a quote which more accurately describes your own actions. I hold no illusion that cultures vary or that equality is far from a law of nature – that was rather the point in asking someone to consider how unconscious statements might sound to other people.