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This is your daily reminder that free speech is not a synonym for hate speech.
Hate speech is the anti-free speech, weaponised speech intended to intimidate and silence others. People who call hate speech "free speech" do not support or protect the speech of others.
When you use free speech as a euphemism for hate speech, you help them spread the idea that free speech is bad into popular culture, which is the first step in dismantling it.
Call hate speech what it is. 
@frankiesaxx Well said.
The thing many people miss is,
"Freedom of speech" is not synonymous with "being able to say whatever you want unchallenged." It is freedom from oppression, not freedom to be (eg) racist without risk of consequence.
Freedom of speech cuts both ways. If someone wants to say something dickish then they can go right ahead, but that self same freedom gives someone else the right to call them out for being a dick.
@frankiesaxx@social.tchncs.de This is an argument in bad faith.