I didn't go into it but there are a lot of ways that expression hatred helps the situation: 1) Hatred bottled up eventually comes out either as violence or speech. I'd rather it be expressed via speech. 2) When people express their real feelings, that can serve as a warning to the rest of us. If I k...

I shouldn't just take one side of the issue here. The argument against hate speech is that it propogates the hateful ideas. And this is true psychologically. Most people, the more they hear something, the more they adopt that view (it is not true among skeptics, but skeptics are a small proportio...