It's true that many things are considered hate speech today, that weren't considered hate speech 20 years ago. Gay slurs, misogynistic slurs, ableist slurs, and

It's true that many things are considered hate speech today, that weren't considered hate speech 20 years ago. Gay slurs, misogynistic slurs, ableist slurs, and so on. I absolutely don't consider this dilution to the point of absurdity, though. Yes, the gay marriage example is silly. It's just a classic swicheroo: "They say WE practice hate speech, therefore we'll argue THEY practice hate speech. We're so clever!". It's asinine, because you can apply this kind of inversion to anything. It's not like society is in any way suffering because people are becoming less tolerant of hate speech. The government doesn't jail people for saying politically incorrect things (that would be terrible). It's just that politically incorrect speech gets stigmatized. That's progress.