Minchin’s last statement is correct tbf.
There’s an ideological issue on the left between the liberal desire to protect free speech and the liberal desire to protect minorities that sometimes gets muddled. It may be well intentioned, but it allows the Right to steal a march, and idiots like this, Robinson, Hopkins etc to paint them as the baddies, with cause.
That said, I really don’t like Pie as much as most people seem to. He usually just takes the most obvious Centrist position and shouts about it. I’m pretty sure I remember him actually being on the fence about Brexit before the fact, only to become all righteous and shouty about it after the fact. Which undermines the whole opinionated polemicist angle, for me. Also the “angry reporter” conceit is annoying now, and not remotely funny (is it even supposed to be funny? He does seem to be called a comedian for some reason. But it’s a really broad definition if he is.)
Oh, also also “I tell you where else you’d get sentenced for making a pug do a Nazi salute!? Nazi Germany!!” Well, yeah. And modern day Germany.
Doesn’t make it right, but it makes his bit a little less cutting.