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'''Name-calling''' is much less serious than [[hate speech]].
[[Name-calling]] is much less serious than '''hate speech'''.  It is not illegal unless the "name" implies a crime, e.g. "murderer", "thief", "fraud".  If that name implying a crime is applied to an entire group, it may be [[hate speech]] - else it is one form of [[criminal libel]]. 
 
More common is [[civil libel]] which is just ordinary damage to [[repute]] that costs someone something in the marketplace.  This does not usually involve names with legal definitions though it might imply wrongdoing, e.g. calling someone a "con artist".
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