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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942) that fighting words are not protected by the First Amendment. Fighting words are defined as words “which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the …/freespeech/wp-content/uploads/sites/584/2022/03/Free-Speech-Rights-Responsibilities.jpg1200628