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This is just the US coming in line with the rest of the civilized world, which does not permit hate speech. Hate speech is speech that encourages violence towar

This is just the US coming in line with the rest of the civilized world, which does not permit hate speech. Hate speech is speech that encourages violence towards specific groups of people. Therefore it's worthwhile to make a free speech exception for it, in the interest of keeping the peace. edit: clarity

renaudg 9y ago
The issue, of course, is to define hate speech. Most speakers being "no-platformed" on American campuses these days absolutely do not "encourage violence towards specific groups of people". It seems sufficient that they challenge prevailing viewpoints to be shouted down. There's this totalitarian attempt at labelling any disagreement as "micro-aggressive", to equate it to hate speech that must be suppressed. But none of that remotely reaches the threshold for legally defined hate speech in most countries. It's even usually completely orthogonal to that scale.