There is no way to overstate the severity of the problems related to social inequality today, and treatment of hate speech in the United States is problematic in light of these escalating tensions. Long-standing arguments that free speech serves as a societal pressure valve and that open speech leads to truth hold little sway when, 200 years later, hatred against groups based on their identities is still rampant and insidious. The concept of hate speech and the subsequent calls for possible restriction raise complicated issues. This article proposes a shift in emphasis from the negative protection of individual rights instead toward a more positive support of social equality. Utilizing Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition, this article develops a two-tiered framework for free speech analysis that will promote a strategy for combating hate speech in the global twenty-first century.

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社会正义，认知理论和第一修正案：仇恨言论限制的新方法

今天，没有办法夸大与社会不平等有关的问题的严重性，鉴于这些紧张局势的升级，在美国，仇恨言论的处理存在问题。长期以来，言论自由起着社会压力的作用，公开言论导致真理的长期争论在200年后仍然根深蒂固且阴险而微不足道。仇恨言论的概念以及随后对限制言论的呼吁提出了复杂的问题。本文建议将重点从消极保护个人权利转向更积极地支持社会平等。利用Axel Honneth的认可理论，