I have no opinion on he piece in question, but the reactions I'm seeing here to nakamuram's posting are disturbing. "Can't ya take a joke?!" is the battlecry of the racist, the sexist, the homophobe, and usually follows some sort of extremely unfunny attempt to promulgate hatred and reactionary agitprop. But with Amerika's unelected generalissimo-in-chief thinking "paki" is a fine word to use for those funny brown people from Pakistan, it's not surprising that cultural insensitivity is on the rise.

Nestor Makhno, the great Ukrainian anarchist, executed two of his own men with his own pistol for putting up anti-semitic posters. Despite a fanatical dedication to free expression, Makhno recognized the danger of racist hatemongering -- and indeed, he would be proved tragically justified when Buchenwald and Auschwitz opened their doors 20 years later.

"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." -- Woody Allen, on the KKK