What you said - f em.
Dissent shouldn't be silenced - that's what the Left does, and we are not them. Ultimately we either BELIEVE in our First Amendment right to speak our mind, or we do not. And if we DO profess to believe in it, then we must defend that right to do so jealously - even if it is not what we agree with.
We have been listening to the Left's crap for years, under their First Amendment protection. We disagree with it, but we understand it is their right. They, on the other hand, try to silence us and deny us our right to speak things that they disagree with. It's what they do.
Ergo, I say F*** 'em.
Ultimately, most of the people I've met out here - a good majority of them - I would trust beside me in a fighting hole. At the end of the day we're on the same side.
"Racist" is an overused word, and I won't buy that product.
If Bundy were to pull out a Klan hood and robe like that Esteemed Democrat Senator Robert Byrd...
...or, if he suddenly decides that he was an ardent admirer of the racist Nazis - like that Esteemed Democrat Joe Kennedy back in his day....
...or if he decides that he supports racist Nazi Gun Control laws SO much that he writes them into law - like that Esteemed Democrat Senator Thomas Dodd did in GCA 1968...
...well, THEN I'll call him a racist.