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Hate explains the badly misunderstood First Amendment approach toward hateful speech, which overlaps substantially with international human rights principles. It shows that this approach is more effective than censorship in promoting all the essential values at stake: free speech, democracy, equality, dignity, diversity, and inclusivity. Under both US and international human rights law, government may punish hateful speech that directly causes specific imminent serious harms, but it may not punish speech solely because its message is defavored, disturbing, or more generally feared to possibly contribute to some potential harm.