A very reasonable column by Jeff Jacoby:
It is one thing to say that places of public accommodation may not refuse service on the basis of national origin. It is something much more radical to say that a sign exhorting customers to speak English should be illegal, too. Anyone offended by Vento’s views is free to boycott his shop and urge others to do the same. But nothing in the Constitution gives those who are offended the right to silence someone else’s speech [this, as most VC readers know, is the primary theme of You Can’t Say That!]. Agree or disagree with Vento’s views, a government that can punish him for expressing them in public is a government that threatens us all.
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