[GOPJ]

Let us accept for the sake of argument that racism is bad, that homophobia is bad, that Islamophobia is bad, that offensive utterances are bad, that mean-spirited thoughts are bad. So what?

As bad as they are, the government’s criminalizing all of them and setting up an enforcement regime in the interests of micro-regulating us into compliance is a thousand times worse.

ping

[MrB]

None of those “bad” things have the legal use of deadly force to back them up.
Anything the gov’t does has the legal use of deadly force behind it.