Sure, they might think that. But I think it is highly relevant to distinguish "speech that offends" and "speech that incites hatred" It might be useful to cen

Sure, they might think that. But I think it is highly relevant to distinguish "speech that offends" and "speech that incites hatred" It might be useful to censor the latter and not the former. The purpose of a "hate speech" law might be to avoid/reduce the social breakdown of having a part of society discriminate against the other. In that sense, saying (for example) that "all arabs are terrorrists" is much worse than drawing mohhamad. The drawing offends muslins, but does not try to persuade me to treat them differently/believe they are different (tl;dr you say they say 'it's relative'. I say it might not be relative, regardless of what people say.)