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Originally Posted by melliedee
I guess I don't take it as lightly as you. Hate speech leads to actual crimes, especially gay bashing (remember Matthew Shepard?). Coulter being youngish, blonde, etc means she appeals to a certain base of young convervatives and does so with ugly comments that increasingly support/legitimize such stances.
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Well, you have your issues, I have mine. Labeling any form of speech as out of bounds smells a lot like thought control to me.
If you seriously suggest that by calling someone a "faggot", you are taking part in a crime, then there really are two Americas.
Coulter is an American citizen and, as such, can say whatever she wants. Personally, I wouldn't call Edwards a "faggot". I would use the word that begins with a P and ends with a Y. Using your cancer ridden wife (as if that protects her from criticism in the political arena) to do your dirty work would fall right into that definition.