Privacy is and as a right ought to be more important than purity.

The Federalistl points out that the racist Donald Sterling was punished not for the racist, illegal actions he took discriminating against black renters for which he paid millions in fines but for private words spoken to his mistress. Indeed the NAACP was ready to give him a lifetime achievement award when his girlfriend betrayed his privacy.

He's a thug and deserves dishonor but he deserves it for his racist public discrimination, not his racist private conversations.  In our civilization deeds matter more than words even if academics and others who never do anything say otherwise.

It's scary when the nation follows campus radicals and conflates private words and public actions. Without the former it's hard to see how we retain any liberty at all.  Read the whole thing at the link.