Another good read...

In France this week we saw a handful of terrorists meticulously assassinate an office of journalists and satirists.  The reaction from the world of social media was swift to identify with, and to support the ideal of a free and open press, and free and open speech.  Those ideals are codified as inalienable rights in our United States Constitution.  However, time and social norms have indeed restricted speech, often in the name of political correctness.  And we have been silently complicit.

David Brooks of The New York Times nailed it in a recent op-ed piece. 

The journalists at Charlie Hebdo are now rightly being celebrated as martyrs on behalf of freedom of expression, but let’s face it: If they had tried to publish their satirical newspaper on any American university campus over the last two decades it wouldn’t have lasted 30 seconds. Student and faculty groups would have accused them of hate speech. The administration would have cut financing and shut them down.
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The massacre at Charlie Hebdo should be an occasion to end speech codes. And it should remind us to be legally tolerant toward offensive voices, even as we are socially discriminating.

Go read the entire article here.