Yeah, and we are all the worse for it. Whatever form America (or the disparate countries that form in the territories that used to be America) takes the shape of after all of this, we are going to have to put it into the founding documents that hate speech is a real thing with real costs that needs to be prosecuted. It needs to be plainly illegal, rather than something people can get away with if the victims of said hate speech don’t have enough money, resources, or time to go through a time-consuming court process to prove harassment, defamation, “true threat” and so forth.
One example: Candidates for election shouldn’t be allowed to spread lies about immigrant communities with the intent of getting others to inflict violence upon them, like what Trump & Vance did to the Haitian communities in Springfield and elsewhere.
