To follow up. This article references the now famous exchange between Sam Harris and Ben Affleck (with Maher firmly on Harris' side) by tacitly endorsing Affleck's petulant, intellectually empty and willfully ignorant tarring that Harris and Maher's analysis of Islam was "gross and racist."

I take your point, fair enough. I used the term "freedom of speech" referring to the antipathy of that principle by the social justice left and its hostility towards certain speech but they are not, necessarily, advocating government restriction.

I fail to see your point. I'm disagreeing with his opinion, period. Nothing else. And the world turns.

Any culture that considers "change" (implicitly for the positive) to mean huddling in frightened masses to oppose committing offense to an IDEOLOGY (not a RACE) that appears to demand that non-adherence to its silly, medieval dogma is bound by all people, not just believers; isn't one worth defending.