The same people making these laws get to determine what hate speech is defined as. You can be charged with a hate crime in Louisiana for resisting arrest at a p

The same people making these laws get to determine what hate speech is defined as. You can be charged with a hate crime in Louisiana for resisting arrest at a peaceful protest, for instance. In Ireland you can run afoul of blasphemy laws, which is in the same spirit as hate speech laws (in my religion it's a blasphemy to discuss any other religion, and since Ireland won't enforce my ideas of blasphemy on anyone else, their enforcement is selective for their favorite religions). Once you make it a crime to express certain opinions, all opinions are up for negotiation. It's not hard to imagine an ultra conservative getting elected and what that would do to discussion around LGBT, for instance.