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Today was quite a day on Twitter. There are a terrifying number of people who want it to make it illegal to call someone "racist" without proof. No, they don't know what this proof would look like, but that's a minor obstacle. Oh, and they all think of themselves as anti-PC.
The instinct is wholly understandable. You can lose your reputation! I am not unsympathetic. But guess what? That's how free speech works. It doesn't just protect your right to invite a racist to campus. It also protects my right to *call* you racist without getting sued.
It is veeeeeery frustrating how many people steadfastly refuse to grok this. And, moreover, how many people who rail against jackbooted university administrators are ready at the drop of a hat to put judges in charge of defining precisely who is and is not a racist.
Literally seconds ago. They just don’t get it. They refuse to.
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