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RE: Attacking Comedy That Offends You Is An Attack On Free Speech
It depends what you mean by "attacking". If you mean, as you discuss here, that attacking is actually criticizing, or saying how offending you are, then you are 100% wrong because that criticizism is itself protected free speech. You are waxing lyrical here about the various ironies of these crticizism, which I agree with you are highly ironic, without realizing that you too have a blind spot.
The right to free speech protects someone saying "shut up". Imperatives are a style of speech. It doesn't mean they are mind code that will definitely get executed in the brain of the listener.
Attacking comedy that offends you is certainly dumb, but it's a continuation of acts of free speech.
I agree with you 100% that saying you are offended by a joke is protected by free speech, something I clearly pointed out in this post. The fact that someone is offended does not give them the right to start a campaign to ruin a comedian's career thought, also covered in this post.