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How do you "incite hatred"? Inciting violence I can understand, but I'm curious what you meant by your statement. I feel hatred can be instilled, but not sure how it can be incited.

The US Supreme court has overruled that before.

The US Supreme court is not the end-all-be-all of legal systems. Most European systems do consider that hate speech can be proscribed, as do most Latin American jurisdictions.

Europe still has Lèse-majesté laws in the 21st century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9

Not to mention the Holocaust denial laws. But you can deny Armenian genocide just fine. Convenient, eh?

"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." -- Voltaire.

It is the consistent position of the United States Supreme Court that hate speech is protected free speech.