[The Lone Ranger]

You see this sort of thing on Facebook all the time. It goes like this: Poster 1 will post something blatantly racist, sexist, and/or homophobic, sometimes openly advocating persecution or even death for gays or whomever is the target of the screed. Poster 2 protests and perhaps even points out that this is clearly hate speech. Poster 1 replies, "That's the problem with you Liberals; you can't take a joke."


I vividly remember a particularly nasty "friend" on Facebook who would openly call for persecution of "practicing homosexuals" -- up to and including having them put to death. He was downright obsessive about it, and seemed to post about little else.

Then he spent days whining about how he was being "persecuted" because someone had the gall to complain about his hate-filled tirades. In response to the complaint, he ranted for quite some time about how terrible it was that "Liberals are trying to suppress my freedom of speech," all because "they just can't take a joke."