Freedom of speech doesn't mean that you won't have consequences of whatever you want to express or say.
You are so right. In a muslim country where you will be killed for blaspheming you still have freedom of speech just not freedom from the consequence of being murdered for exercising your freedom of speech. Freedom of speech and freedom from consequences for exercising freedom of speech are so totally different. How did I not see it before. /sarc
If you are trying to argue something like social ostracism is a legitimate consequence than I would agree with that. Realistically, it depends what sorts of consequences you are talking about.
y'all
Wait werent you just making fun of us for being rednecks a minute ago? I have nothing against saying y'all or rednecks. It's just a bit ironic.
Whereas to me, it means having the gonads to stand up and confront anything that's not right and having the "skin" for whatever comes right back as a consequence.
So what exactly is "not right" about making fun of retards? Please show me the victim. No victim no crime. I wouldn't intentionally hurt one's feelings to his face just to be mean. That wouldn't be wrong on the grounds of some principle about not making fun of retards, it would be wrong on the grounds of being a dick. Wrong in a similar way to burping loudly in public.
sicker in the head than those born with ID
Bro... Wtf... That's not cool. You shouldn't talk about disabled people like that. If you think it's ok to say things like "sicker in the head than those born with ID", then I surmise that you are sicker in the head than those born with ID.
But hey this is getting pretty wildly off topic. I would just like to wrap it up by pointing out that the only way to fight for free speech is by saying things that offend people, things that are uncomfortable. You don't defend free speech by talking about the weather. You defend it in places were people would contest whether you should be able to say it. You are more or less arguing that we shouldn't have said what we said. Which is some evidence that it was a good thing that we said it, atleast in so far as furthering the fight for free speech is concerned. Maybe it had other negative effects, but I can live with that, almost any price is worth paying to defend free speech.