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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes understood this when he wrote the dissenting opinion in Abrams v. United States (1919) that eventually formed the basis for modern understanding of the First Amendment, the law that protects people who say hateful things about minority groups even if the intention is to cause their members distress and to generate contempt and loathing.
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