Short of defamatory or incendiary speech, we in America are typically “free” to say pretty much whatever we want to. While it almost sounds antithetical to any meaningful code of decency, it is exactly what, happily, America is about.
Although the First Amendment is really about governmental incursions on free speech guaranteed in the First Amendment, it is generally viewed as giving one the right to say what one wants to say—across the board.
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