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'Hate Speech' is a Nonsense Word

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  What's all this nonsense about 'hate speech' I think we need to take a step back and look at the current historical context wherein we are experiencing what is construed as 'hate speech'. A person on his own will have his own ideas.  And he will continue to think it fine till he encounters another from another clime with his own ideas.  At this point, when they meet, they can have opposing ways of seeing and doing things.  What can happen then is that the deem all criticism from each other as 'hate speech', or learn from what they other had learnt in his unique experience and take it as constructive criticism.  But now, constructive criticism is being taken as 'hate speech'.  Yes, there are some that can truly be deemed to be hate speech, like a person calling for the death of another race of people.  But are they to be the excuse to silence all constructive criticism because it can fuel the view that an other ought to be exterminated?  All this...