ok....but thats not how I feel I merely answered the question that was posed.Um, in a lot of states, including Texas (I am not fully up to date on Texan law but this was the case until relatively recently) there is a qualification on free speech known as "fighting words." In other words, expressing something so volatile and so understood that it will cause immediate violence that it is not considered just an expression of free speech. It is the same reasoning as yelling fire in a theater or inciting a mob to riot or disturbing the peace. You are not free to express yourself any way you like in any context you like until you're blue in the face and you've started a race riot.
This changes from place to place, but in some parts of the U.S. "fighting words" are still on the books as a restriction on pure free speech. It's like putting up a KKK banner in the middle of a black neighborhood in Philadelphia--- if you didn't realize that was going to immediately provoke a destructive reaction, you were criminally stupid. ;)
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