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No they can’t, because we have concrete ideas of what constitutes it, and we also have common sense.
All systems can be torn apart by your logic so if we listen to you, we could never do anything.
Unfortunately, that’s just not the world we live in.
People aren’t beacons are virtue, and will gladly label something they don’t like as ‘hate speech’ just to get it removed even if it isn’t actually hate speech. As soon as enough people in their microcosm agree with them, the censorship happens.