Hate speech is not about violence though. Plenty of countries have laws against incitement to violence without having hate speech laws. Take the United States a

Hate speech is not about violence though. Plenty of countries have laws against incitement to violence without having hate speech laws. Take the United States as an example. Harassment and incitement to violence can still be illegal without hate speech laws. The Cambridge dictionary says this: >public speech that expresses hate OR encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation Notice the "or". Simply expressing hate is enough by this definition, which is clearly not violence. >Doesn't mean your message must be popular or in line with the popular views of society at the time. Religious people argued in the past that gay marriage is not okay because it goes against their religion. If they had had hate speech laws then they probably would've used them against advocates of gay marriage. [0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/hate-speech https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/hate-...