Hate speech is derisive and dangerous, and in this country there is little that can be done about. It has not been from lack of trying throughout the years, but the question remains in the face of the various attempts to legislate hates speech, “what actually can be done about it?” I begin addressing the question by exploring the question of hate speech as it may be perceived through the actions of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. I then move into legal arguments by looking at two specific Supreme Court cases that have reversed efforts to curtail such speech, leaving the issue in sort-of holding pattern awaiting further debate. But when exploring the issue of hate speech the issue of social engineering may come to the fore in the guise
