This isn’t a philosophical conversation. This is an author who said bad and dumb thing that were hurtful. Defending this is a poor decision.

No. Freedom of speech entitles you to speak to the government. It does not entitle you to impose your bad and wrong and harmful thoughts on others. When you exposure those kinds of ideas and people tell you to shut up, you are not being silenced, you are being corrected.

Free speech protects you from the government. That’s it. Mewing about how people are anti-free speech because they’re telling you what you’ve said is harmful and unhelpful and maybe stupid is not your free speech being infringed; it’s you being wrong.

That wasn’t even a good attempt at attempting to dismiss my argument...

I need not be specific, you can’t argue against any of the posts

Yep, because nothing says “Indians are evil” like changing into an animal (something done with regularity in the original books).

As somebody who doesn’t live in the USA and is therefore not drowning in a morass of racial neuroses, I don’t find anything remotely offensive ...

Throw in a “kids today” and “worthless generation” and I immediately lose any respect for you or your opinion. Fuck you.

So you are saying Transformers should be ... what? An existentialist treatise on the benefits of mechanical nihilism? A product of entertainment is what is it, not what you think it should be. Or are you one of those people who did go see Transformers expecting Shakespeare?