The part I was trying to get at is that under current law, true threats are their own category. Hate speech that is a true threat is illegal, due to being a tr

The part I was trying to get at is that under current law, true threats are their own category. Hate speech that is a true threat is illegal, due to being a true threat. Hate speech that is not a true threat is awful, but legal. So hate speech is not illegal for being hate speech, it's only illegal when it's also a true threat. And in that case it's illegal because it's a true threat. There's certainly plenty of overlap, but it doesn't help anyone's understanding of why it's illegal to lump them together or point out that speech can fit in more than one category when only one of the categories is illegal under current US jurisprudence.