The Unhelpful Definition of Hate Speech

The term hate speech is too ill defined to be useful as a concept here, he says. There's a tendency for a certain segment of society to say hate speech is not protected by the first amendment and there’s an equally ciferous part of society that says it is protectedby the first amendment. They can actually both be right and wrong because we don't we're not necessarily talking about the same things. If what we mean by hate speech is comments that people find offensive critical statements, etc., that's probably protected by theFirst Amendment. But if we're talking about things like shouting racial slurs and the workplace to your colleague that isn't actually protected so we have to be