Ah, very convenient, if I ever want to report someone for writing something I don't like I'll borrow Wente's little bit of doublethink and say that I was just "testing the system..."

The premise of this column is that prohibitions on racist speech are backfiring on the left by reducing what it can say, or removing freedom of speech that it once had. But that is nonsense. The fact is that the left never had any freedom of speech in the first place. There was never any climate in which Khan could have safely said these things without fear of retribution. So the left does not experience any "backfire" from these things: they have just made racist speech as difficult as anti-racist speech always was.

If you want the left to care about freedom of speech, then give it some.