Two issues wherein I'm really tired of having the conversation:
Hate speech isn't protected by the First Amendment.
Yes it is. In fact, hate speech doesn't exist in the USA's interpretation of constitutional law. If you wanna have a conversation about whether or not hate speech should be illegal, I'm willing to kick the philosophical shit out of you; but, it's still not a legal argument.Assault weapons and assault rifles aren't the same thing. They're not. Stop conflating the two. You're just revealing yourself to be an ignoramus.
I'm tired of "Free speech doesn't mean you're free from the consequences of your speech."
Yes it does. That is the whole point of free speech. You can speak freely...free from the fear of going to jail or losing your job. Free from the fear of being kicked off social media or having your paper shut down. Free from the powerful people in society seeing up a national orthodoxy of what you can say, and what you can't...what opinions you may express, and what ones you may not. It's being free from a LOT of consequences.
Now, if I go up to a man and tell him his wife is fat and ugly, I should expect a punch in the nose. There are any number of scenarios where speech = negative consequences. But there is a line, around large amounts of speech, where no consequences are allowed. That's what free speech is, that's what makes it free.