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Just like obscenity. You know it when you hear it.
That problem with that approach is its basically your subjective definition of what's obscene or hateful. I mean, that's fine usually. When it comes to laws, though, that affect not just you, it's important to have a definition of it, or to clearly characterize its elements so that one can argue what hate speech is.
Naturally, our country doesn't have a legal definition of it, so, hate speech doesn't exist legally.
In contrast, Germany, with its unique history, does have hate speech laws: Section 130 of the German Criminal Code prohibits "Incitement of Masses" (Firefox translated this for me.. )
This one sounds like something fearful capitalists would implement for Communism lol.
How do you define it? Germany has laws around their socialist past. Should America have laws against socialism and democrats since that is where the Nazis got their ideas?
There is a fundamental (and probably intentionally) failure of history here.
Germany was never socialist, nor were the nazis. Just as North Korea is technicallt callee the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" while not being a republic or democratic, the nazis weren't socialists because they have the word socialism in their official name. Official names can, and in this case are bullshit. There was a socialist movement in Germany, but the nazis co-opted and destroyed socialism. Many of the political prisoners in the holocaust were communists and socialists, taken away because they were communist or socialist.
The nazis didn't get any ideas for socialism. They destroyed the socialist movement, as it was antithetical to their goals.
But they did learn from the U.S., and how the conservatives in Texas treated immigrants. At the time, they would only allow people of color through if they went through harsh chemical cleaning treatments under the guise of getting rid of lice. The nazis took that idea and ran with it. And nowadays the U.S. treatment of immigrants is not much better thanks to conservatives.