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Yeah but if I dont know what it is, I dont know if it fits one of the carve-outs or not - and there's a bunch of them.
Probably 'fighting words' would have the most overlap with hate speech. But most of the explicit (and they are explicit) examples of such talk in Supreme Court cases have been ruled to be free speech.
Just about everything the Westboro Baptists has shouted and waved on signs, from 'God Hates Snappy Dressers' to 'Thank God for Dead US Soldiers' has been free speech.
"Lone dissenting Justice Samuel Alito likened the protests of the Westboro Baptist Church members to fighting words and of a personal character, and thus not protected speech."
And Justice Alito is almost always wrong about things, so there.
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