Bigoted speech has to be protected as well. The limit on free speech is no calls to violence. It is not simply enough to silence someone for saying "I hate these groups of people". Not a wise idea to make censorship a blanket solution to be free from being offended. I am quite sure to religious people, this website is seen as "bigoted" and "hateful" so wouldn't be wise for minority atheists to hand the government the loaded gun of censorship.
What one considers offensive another may not. The common law is that you cannot act out in violence or make calls to violence. The well intended fail to consider that power shifts over time, and while it is good to fight bigotry, you have to consider what you would want to say you know offends others. You don't protect offensive speech because you personally like it, you protect it for your own right to say what you want. "Who gets to decide" what is or is not offensive. It is better to simply agree that no one advocate violence.
Now that is not to say bigoted organizations have not been sued and members arrested, that has happened. But the government cannot simply have anyone arrested for being a bigot or saying hateful things.
What one considers offensive another may not. The common law is that you cannot act out in violence or make calls to violence. The well intended fail to consider that power shifts over time, and while it is good to fight bigotry, you have to consider what you would want to say you know offends others. You don't protect offensive speech because you personally like it, you protect it for your own right to say what you want. "Who gets to decide" what is or is not offensive. It is better to simply agree that no one advocate violence.
Now that is not to say bigoted organizations have not been sued and members arrested, that has happened. But the government cannot simply have anyone arrested for being a bigot or saying hateful things.
