Dumb LA Times Headline Supposedly About Free Speech
The headline:

Hate speech vs. free speech: UC regents to debate proposal on fighting intolerance

"Hate speech" is free speech and -- whether you agree with it or not -- should be free speech.

It is far healthier to have the hate speech out in the open where it can be questioned and debated than it is to shut people up.

A bit from the piece:

Some Jewish activists say they will press their argument that the statement is far too weak on taking steps against anti-Semitism, while some free speech advocates are expected to contend the principles will chill the rights to free expression.

Even as a young Jewish teen in Michigan -- one who'd met with some nasty stuff from neighborhood Christians -- I understood the value and importance of free speech, and I supported the right of the neo-Nazis to march in Skokie.