Do Racism and Free Speech Matter in the Workplace?

In an experiment, volunteers listened to racially charged commentary and evaluated whether they would reach for free speech arguments to defend it. The more negative the speaker in the racialized condition, the stronger you endorsed free speech as a justification for why the person should have been able to say that without being fired. So that suggests that racial attitudes might be behind free speech defense. But you might say, quite easily, that's simply aco ation. I'm not impressed. Maybe people who have negative racial attitudes are also libertarians, and they believe that free speech is is superimportant, and they're just expressing that.