Ann Coulter==>Hate speech vs free speech?

[11mc22]

Big deal in Canada and everyone is upset with arms flailing about it. Just brings up a question, does free speech give you the "right" to make racist statements? I don't know much about Ann Coulter except for the fact she is like the very definition of a stereotypical republican.

[Gumba Masta]

Hey, I'm all for letting people outing their racist, bigotet opinnions in public.
Makes it easier to pick 'em out with my sniper rifle.

[Lord T Hawkeye]

You're free to speak your views as long as they're only opinions.  Outright lying is what'll get you in trouble.

[AHPMB]

Free speech gives you the right to make whatever ridiculous statements you want without fear of legal reprisal.  Which is exactly why Coulter's rights were not violated, and why she's only making herself look more ridiculous...if that were even possible.  Equating this University to Canada's hate speech commissions just detracts from what is a serious discussion about human rights.  Then again, Coulter always has been the carnival freak-show of American politics.

[Travis Retriever]

You're free to speak your views as long as they're only opinions.  Outright lying is what'll get you in trouble.

Actually, lying won't.  Slander will.

[Gumba Masta]

Else conjurers would be in seriously deep doo-doo.

[The Late Andrew Ryan]

Racism is a plauge on nearly all but the basic levels.
This being said, I think that statism is a plauge on all but the very basic levels, and even on those levels it is incorrect. Should I have the right to violently enforce my preference against statist speech?
While they would not agree with the statist speech part of that (damn commies) they would still agree that any have the right to defend themselves against violence, be it racially inspired or not, but merely speaking is not violence. Are the conservatives to enforce their preferences for only conservative speech? The Religeous to enforce their preference for that speech which alligns itself to their faith? However if this is a direct threat against someone, based upon their race or not, then it is directly threatening and should be treated as the possible opening of violence, like waving a weapon around.

[Lord T Hawkeye]

Got the whole story about that today.  All I can say to the college that threw a tantrum about Coulter, congrats, you just did something I thought impossible: Made Ann Coulter look like the reasonable one.  -_-

Why do people not get that free speech is universal?  You can't pick and choose who gets the right.