Because Hate Speech Isn't A Thing

Unless they're not in the really cool Cult45 in which case you call them "Weftitht" and try to cajole them into leaving this site under the guise of them forgetting a comma somewhere?

“We ought to come up with legislation, that if you burn the American flag, you go to jail for one year. One year.” Donald Trump

Flag burning is an act. It's also a form of SYMBOLIC hate speech protected under the first amendment. Free speech does not necessarily have to come out of your mouth. Therefore, what Trump posited is unconstitutional. This is very basic stuff that I learned in middle school.

Except flag burning is symbolic speech if it is burned to convey a message, and it's symbolic hate speech when it's used to convey the message that you hate America. And yes, hate speech is a thing. It's defined by the Cambridge dictionary as "public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation." I don't know why you're so adamant on proving that hate speech doesn't exist. I genuinely don't know what point you are trying to make. All I'm saying is that hate speech, like burning the flag is and should be protected constitutionally, which you agree with.

Ok, as I said before, I already agree with you 100% that everyone has a duty to defend free speech, whether hateful or not. I also agree with you that hate speech is subjective and can be interpreted by different people in different ways. However, just because something is subjective doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Racism is subjective, yet it still exists. Xenophobia is subjective, yet it still exists. Misogyny is subjective, yet it still exists. Misandry is subjective, yet it still exists. Anti semitism is subjective, yet it still exists.

Again, just because something is not objective does not mean the concept of it is nonexistent.

Also, I don't believe 'all lives matter' is hate speech, and I don't think many leftists think that is hate speech either.