Hate speech laws are totally a political tool.

They are asymmetric in favor of certain communities.

The same way that “making LLMs safe” or “neutral” is actually a way to inject an ideology.

Look into France, which case can lead you to jail:

Criticize islam: risk of jail

Criticize white: ok

Criticize black: risk of jail

Glorify nazis: risk of jail

Glorify soviets: ok

Quite the reflection of influence if one side is forbidden to speak and the other can shit on them

Extremists in France love these laws, but only the left ones.

France banned burqas, it would be very funny to insist that Muslims get some kind of special treatment. Not to mention countless French rightwingers have been flinging Muslim refugees under the bus for the last decade with almost no consequences for it.

Glorifying nazis is glorifying naziism, an ideology that's predicated on the need to kill all Jewish people, among other things (gay people and whatever the nazis hated). That easily falls under hate speech.

Glorifying soviets is just glorifying a failed political regime. You can also glorify the Napoleonic era, or the Kingdom of the Franks, or whatever other politics you want. There wasn't genocidal intent baked into the very fabric of Stalinism, despite his genocide of the Ukranians.