I’m a free speech absolutist who is blessed to live in a country where we have a First Amendment that protects all speech, including hate speech. That said, I’m not a fan of hateful speech. I don’t encourage it and certainly don’t endorse it. Nor do I like intolerance. Yet what is hate speech? For an increasing number of people on the Left, it now seems to be defined merely as speech they don’t like or even people they don’t like expressing themselves. That seemed to be the case on Sunday night when Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in response to two Christian ads that aired during the Super Bowl. “Fascism!” AOC claimed. https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1624967013817884674 Seriously? The ads to which Ocasio-Cortez appeared to be responding to were part of a faith-based campaign titled ‘Jesus gets us.’ The first commercial showed children loving and embracing each other, and encouraged everyone to love one another. To “be childlike.” It was sweet. https://youtu.be/ogLX2heol5E The second ad featured still photos of people from different backgrounds yelling at each other, appearing to encapsulate the often venomous current national mood. The video urged viewers to “Love your enemies.” It was a wonderful message. https://youtu.be/f5x1RyJOwP8 “Jesus loved the people we hate,” a final standalone sentence read, followed by, “He gets us.” Who the hell would hate that message? I wasn’t alone in thinking that AOC, even by her standards, had lost her mind. https://twitter.com/ericowensdc/status/1624976848416395264 https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1625004058799968256 https://twitter.com/Ziemba73/status/1624980502498234370 In speculating what AOC probably didn’t like about the commercials, CNN