Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs.

Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand.

Marketing tools that get your products out there. Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time.

From startups to scaleups, online, in person, and on the go. Shopify is made for

entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup.

Is it the government's job to tell you when you're being offended and protect you from

offense, whether or not you agree?

Simon Tam is the bassist and founder of a band he named The Slants. He and the other members of the band don't think the band's name was disparaging or offensive. Tam grew up in California facing

discrimination and disparagement as an Asian American, and he named the band to fight back against that bigotry, to turn it against the bigots.

I mean, the name really came from, I mean, for one, as commentary, like you pointed out,

but also because we wanted to share our perspective or our slant on life, if you will,

of what it's like to be people of color in the U.S.

And the idea of kind of reappropriation and claiming of negative stereotypes really got cemented

in my mind from a couple of incidents as a child and throughout high school.

Most notably, one happened during my middle school years when I was responsible for

cleaning up the sports equipment during our recess one day and I didn't realize

it but another group of students hung back and stayed they actually surprised me by jumping me

they pushed me to the ground they started kicking sand in my eyes started punching and kicking me

all the while yelling japp and gook over and over again and it wasn't

until I snapped and I said you know what I'm a chink like if you're going to be racist at least do it

correctly this is how stupid you are you can't even be a proper racist that they stopped and that's when

I realized there's so much power in being able to claim an identity,

...