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There's a fine line between "free speech" and "hate speech". Doing hate speech is not free speech. In my experience, it's usually americans who don't understand this.
Americans have fetishised the concept of free speech to a remarkable degree. Virtually no other country permits such a toxic policy.
It all stems from a fundamental misunderstanding (or intentional ignorance, I imagine, in many cases) of what 'free speech' really means in the US constitution. All it means is that you can speak out against the government without being jailed for your views. It definitely does not mean that people can say whatever they want without consequences, even though that's what people who hold particularly abhorrent views would like everyone to believe.
Europeans and being casually xenophobic with zero prompting. Really wish that could be more unexpected post-reddit.