Except what counts is explicitly encoded in law, not what anyone makes up. "Are my posts, which openly express my dislike of elves, hate speech?" No, because

Except what counts is explicitly encoded in law, not what anyone makes up. "Are my posts, which openly express my dislike of elves, hate speech?" No, because that's really silly. The law would let you do that. If instead you asked people to kill people, that would be taken down.