Actually there are many laws that will see you hauled up in court for saying and doing racist things. You just could not be more wrong.
The fact that there is legislation preventing people from
doing racist things is understandable. Anything that pushes a person down or harms them based on race should have some kind of consequence. But,
saying racist things? Unless they're
direct calls to violence, racist speech is free speech. These ideas should be punished socially, not with laws. I don't have a statistic but I'll make the assertion regardless that most people hate racists. Western society shames them.
Of course, it depends on how loose your definition of racist is. I'd imagine yours is quite loose.
This leads quite smoothly into:
Calling out racists is never time wasted. Perhaps you think otherwise.
I do think otherwise, in fact! Even though, as I said earlier, racists should be shamed socially by people like you, you're not changing anyone's mind. Not Morrissey's, not ours. We've all read the same interviews, you understand. We all have our own opinions about his views. If you read something he said and decided he was a Nazi, we're not going to feel enlightened or educated if you were to call him one if we've read the same interview without coming to that conclusion. Who are you writing this stuff for, then? What do you think it's achieving? Do you enjoy it, somehow?