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You bring up some good points. It really is about freedom of speech. The very reason for that is to allow people to speak regardless of their views.
I also agree that labelling some as hate groups is meant to take away their freedom of speech. Hate speech is a myth. If speech encourages or promotes violence, then it's inciting riots or harm and that is wrong. Specifically calling to attack or kill others is not free speech but rather a threat.
The left thought that Trump's name in chalk on a sidewalk was hate speech. The same people who would be okay with Hillary or Obama's name being spray painted on the side of a building thought something written in chalk should be investigated as both vandalism and a threat. Can't make this stuff up.
While a lot on the right are being sucked into debating this mess, I don't know what else they should do. For years, the right tended not to engage the left when they uttered the most ridiculous accusations and that allowed their rhetoric to go unchallenged.
I think they need to be called on this.
It's mostly liberal media misrepresenting what took place and there are plenty of people who listen to them or run with the sensational headlines. Those are the same ones who think watching Seth Myers and other late night talk shows is the way to keep up with current events.
Thanks to the failed public education system, and in some cases, secondary education system, we now have a generation or more who totally don't understand what the First Amendment does or how it applies. It drives me nuts when some young libtard chortles about Colin Kaepernick's "right to free speech" when you don't have a free speech right as an employee of a private company. You can't stand on my property and exercise free speech unless I permit you to.
Aside from their total misunderstanding of the First Amendment, some of them seem to believe that violence perpetrated by left wing radicals is okay because they are "fighting the good fight" or some such nonsense.
That's why no libs are disgusted by the violent ISIS-style ANTIFA groups. They agree with the nonsense so anything goes. Meanwhile, when they don't agree, they do everything to stop people from even speaking.
Schools are indoctrinating children to be pure liberals who can only participate in groupthink. They train children to hate guns, true freedoms and liberty. College libs are willing to give up liberty for socialist policies. They've managed to convince these sheep that going with the flow of leftwing politicians is the key to a good life. It's only true if you are willing to let others think for you. The education system (and I use the term lightly) is doing a great job of brainwashing snowflakes into believing that submission is better than independence.