In my response to this Assignment, and your comments, let me first say you all found really depressing findings. I'll have to redo this assignment next year. :) So much bad speech, and it's everywhere. In government, on sports fields, in quiet neighborhoods. But as most First Amendment lawyers (and others) will say, the best way to fight offensive speech is with more speech. Examples include the McCain response and the white supremacists. If you let people get away with saying these things, no matter how often you hear it (as in Vishal's example), saying nothing back is not always a good solution, although there are risks either way. Clearly it is no longer a free speech issue when you kill someone.
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