But this case was not about free speech or the right to hold odious views, which the First Amendment protects.
"The debate is a thinly veiled opportunity to allow the dreadfully transphobic Julie Bindel a platform for her odious views," posted one blogger.
But it's to his credit that even when engaging Helms's more odious views, he shuns stridency while still managing to demonstrate the centrality of Dixie-bred racism to Helms's career — and to the book's larger tale of Southern-style conservatism's ascent since the 1960s.
Though this openness toward free expression allows for the expression of truly odious views, it also ensures that those views are given sunlight, exposed for the public to criticise and denounce.
Trump's odious views do not necessarily rise to fascism unless coupled with Trump's incitement of violence.
People may be upset by what they see as SN's legitimizing of a candidate with some odious views, but the show didn't make Trump popular America did that.
But those who have become peddlers of Islamophobia use this catastrophe to try and justify their odious views already held against Muslims.
Speaking of odious views, the Vast Right-Wing Anti-Clinton Conspiracy is now operating at full steam, pushing the theory that Hillary Clinton is liable to drop dead before she can even take office, because she is so ill.
