This was a discussion I found myself in recently:
Say a group of like-minded folk are sitting around, and one of them starts to spout off with what in another group would be considered racist, hateful speech (you pick a target for an example; I simply haven’t the heart).
(And yes, I realize this is unseemingly vague as an example, but it’s the end of the week and bear with me.)
Because folks are like-minded in this group — relatively speaking, that is — no one says boo, and the racist/hateful moment passes, and everyone moves on to the rest of their day.
Consider this a twist on the old “if a tree falls in the wilderness” question: If no one objected, was the speech still wrong?
