Yesterday, on my way home, I ended up behind a jacked up Git-R-Done with a decal that read "Niggerigers Customs".
Now, various other features lead me to infer that the owner's intent was to use the term "nigger" as an insult to blacks. I found the message offensive, and it really caught me off guard how deeply I resent racists. Real racists, not people who use terms like 'black hole' or 'niggardly' and are smeared with others' ignorance, but rather those who consider people with different skin colors less of a person than they are.
Even through my seething anger, I did not feel the need to call my congresscritter and have him write up legislation banning offensive phrases from vehicle. I know well enough that the cure for speech I deem hateful is more speech. I wouldn't do business with anyone I knew to have stuff like that on their vehicles.
I have no right to be free of offense. To be a free citizen, I must accept that there will be speech that hurts me emotionally. I must accept that there will be people who say things that go against my beliefs. I am required to deal with the fact that everything I accept to be true can be openly challenged.
To ask that others' speech is muzzled so that I can live free of offense is cowardly and shameful behavior, no better than the actions of racists shits like the guy I was behind.