"Hate Speech Is Not Free Speech"

That's about as confused as its possible to be. 

What the left calls "hate speech" (which is mostly: things the left disagrees with) is protected under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. 

   So, ignoring the error at the heart of this nonsense: "hate speech" is, indeed, free speech.

   But the real error is: this ridiculous progressive claim is analogous to saying:  Hateful actions aren't free actions. And that's obviously absurd. Hateful actions are no less free than any other actions. Being hateful doesn't make actions unfree. And being hateful doesn't make speech unfree. Though, again, most of what's called "hate speech" has nothing to do with actual hate. 

   A closer analogy is actually this one: to say Hate speech isn't free speech is rather like saying Hateful actions aren't legally permissible actions. Which is absurd. Of course they are. The vast majority of them, anyway. Saying "I hate you," for example, is, if true, a hateful action. But, of course, it isn't illegal.

   So, anyway: there's no such thing (legally speaking) as "hate speech;" and the speech progressives mean to describe with the phrase "hate speech" is usually not at all hateful...and it is free, i.e. protected by the First Amendment.

   So it's really hard to be wronger than that.