The dreaded but

I heard the following conversation between two persons at work today.

K: About these cartoonists in France. You know, I don't think that people should be killed for what they say or write BUT what they wrote was so ... racist! I'm all for freedom of speech-

A: Isn't that the whole point of free speech?

K: ...

One of these people was a woman, the other was, of course, a man.

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