He shouldn’t have apologized. That’s like chum in the water to dem sharks.
Let’s start calling ‘hate speech’ what it is:
ThoughtCrime
You do a search and replace every time ‘hate speech’ is used and it reads so similarly to Orwell’s ‘1984’ that you just can’t come to any other conclusion as to what and who is behind the ‘codification’ of ‘hate speech’.
For example, I’d love to find a powerpoint deck or preso on ‘Hate Crime’ and do that sort of phrase substitution and the see what happened. I think it would be remarkable.