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The very essence of free speech is the freedom to say politically incorrect things.

Being free to say only things that are politically correct is no freedom at all.

The Wikipedia definition of hate speech is:

In law, hate speech is any speech, gesture or conduct, writing, or display which is forbidden because it may incite violence or prejudicial action against or by a protected individual or group, or because it disparages or intimidates a protected individual or group.

Italics mine. There are two big problems with legally prohibiting all such hate speech:

First, when we come to the point where mere disparagement is forbidden, we will have already murdered free speech in the name of an Islamic-like orthodoxy.

Second, the idea that certain individuals or groups are "protected", this means those individuals or groups are given greater rights than the rest of us, and that everyone else is a second-class citizen.

In America, our new unofficial Koran is that the following characteristics in minorities confer legally superiority to the rest of us and may not even be disparaged except under threat of being fired, fined, or even jailed:

"race, religion, gender, disability, or sexual orientation"

Though the First Amendment has not yet been official overturned, in reality, college campuses in particular routinely violate the first amendment via speech codes.

Speech codes adopted by government-financed state colleges and universities amount to government censorship, in violation of the Constitution.

from https://www.aclu.org/free-speech/hate-speech-campus

Thank god for the ACLU. They have real integrity, and the balls to stand up for the rights of everyone and not just "protected" groups.