The norm used to be that as bad as hate speech is, bad speech is the most important type of speech to protect because no one tries to ban speech that they like.

This was recognized as important because invariably the powers that be change hands and then people with very different rules on what speech is bad get to use the same tools to suppress speech.

That is why you had the ACLU defending the rights of nazis to hold rallies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_... which would likely not happen today

Nowadays they come armed with bodyarmor and rifles so.. it's not completely the same thing.

I joined tried out a new game afew months back, a Vietnam War based FPS that was free on Epic.

I was treated to the most disgusting explanation of why Jews deserve everything that happened to them, among other choice horrible bigotry from one of the players.

Other players, seemed irritated and muttered about him, but he kept going until I finally logged off.

was it Bobby Fischer?

Being against the use of hate speech is pretty a core progressive value.

It's 100% ok to teach kids they they shouldn't promote genocide or use racial slurs.

it greatly depends on how you define hate speech