Yes, it is. No such thing as "hate speech" - only speech you hate. The U.S.A. was largely founded because of speech being censored by the King because it was considered "hate speech". So, alleged "hate speech" led to the founding of a nation that gave you the freedom to hate speech you don't like.
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"Free speech" has limitations, we already agreed on this, you cannot legally yell fire in a theater to incite panic.
Wrong answer. But thanks for playing.
Which means without hate speech as a legal distinction, anyone could incite hatred targeting white cis hetro men.
And you really do not want others uniting around a shared hatred of cis white straight men, who made tons of enemies.
Also we don't have free speech. Try saying something bad about cops or bringing up torture too much and see how free of consequence it is
No individual utterance may be a true threat but in the aggregate it's terrifying
I'm saying hate speech isn't speech that's hated, it's that which, in the aggregate, evokes fear, and so restricts the freedom of the target