Yes, This Ad Is Offensive. But Free Speech Rides Public Transit, Too
Sometimes embracing free speech means sharing the subway with an ad that churns your stomach.
American Freedom Defense Initiative
By
Emily Badger
Let’s get this out of the way up front: This is a shitty ad.
The implication, via Ayn Rand quote, that Muslims are “savages” is offensive and racist. And this is probably not the kind of sentiment most of us would want conveyed to out-of-towners or foreigners traveling the streets of San Francisco or the New York subway.
