I'm a rather passive ham, but other more active ones in my vicinity have been seen speaking at metrology conferences and similar. Make no mistake, we get the racist soap-phobic bum type too, but perhaps not as frequently. There is more than one kind.
I'd have to agree with bd139. You're very lucky mansaxel. After getting back into the hobby in ~2013 I finally got fed up with almost all the hams here. My mobile radios I used to talk on the local frequencies are all back in the closet. I still talk to one of them (on the phone) and go eat lunch from time to time. But the rest I have little interest in. Some of the words/phrases I would use to describe them would be : Bigoted, sloppy, incurious, lazy, boring, religious zealots, and dirty (if you want to see the radio I had to bug-bomb before I repaired it let me know ...) to list a few things.
It's really sad but I have more interest in spending time with my cat than 95% of local hams. Let me say that I do realize there are many very smart and likeable hams in the world, it just seems like they are nowhere near me.
So yes they have all the freedom in the world to say whatever they want to, but I have no requirement to listen.