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RE: You can't stop fascism by becoming fascist and you can't beat hate with a ban hammer
I only have a moment to respond so i'll keep it short.
Appreciate you creating thought provoking questions. The problem with your premise is that hate speech is also a policing of peoples thoughts as electrical impulses. Any brain only has so much capacity for attention, and when people are exposed to the same impulses (any propaganda) over and over again, those thoughts become apart of a brains programing.
Your question still leads back to where is the line drawn in the cultural curation of language, not ultimately whether language is curated or not, because people yelling hate is forcing their curation upon others.
This is why I said people have a right to ban speech from their environment or sphere of influence on a personal and professional level. I am speaking on the idea of national level or state level bans of community defined hate speech. There was a time when certain words, books, etc, were banned even in the United States from being sold and or aired on television.
People who spread hate speech don't have to be given an audience. And if they can force an audience then fix the goddamn platforms which are designed to steal eyeballs instead of required to pay for attention. If attention is scarce we need an attention economy, not national level curation.
All you need to counter this kind of thing is recognize a proper counter argument. No matter how many times a person looks at a dog and tries to convince me that it is a cat it will never work. I have information that says otherwise as well as common sense.
The argument that you are posing is very similar to the old debate that says people who watch too many violent movies become desensitized to using violence in real life.
It's proven to not be the case. If anything, free speech is the most important tool for preventing mind control propaganda tactics.