On Charlottesville

Folks, this one’s pretty simple:
1. You have the right to free speech. That happens to not only include but is explicitly present in the Bill of Rights to protect disgusting, outrageous speech. Why? Because nobody ever tries to censor the other kind. I remind you that the KKK has for decades marched in Skokie, IL — a Jewish community.
2. You do not have the right to respond to speech, no matter how outrageous or disgusting, with violence. Period.
If you do not both accept and embrace #1 and #2 then we no longer have a Constitutional Republic.

This post was published at Market-Ticker on 2017-08-13.