The World is Over Sensitive

All over the world young teens and older teens enter-act at games, arcades, amusement parks, school and many other places. Why are the news people making a big deal out of something that happens all the time? Yes, one of the teens is famous and the others are general public, but this news coverage of a incident between a 16 year old and a 12 year old is getting out of hand. Teens everywhere say things to each other the many sensitive and noble minded people would find offensive.Teens regularly use racial slurs and call each other things like "fag" "gay","dork", black teens regularly call each other "nigger" and white teens do the same. The problem seems to be the adults that are SO sensitive that anything that is not perfectly polite and proper,  must be hate speech. Sometimes words that are taken out of context can sound like something they are not meant to mean. Hate speech may not be hate, it may be the way to close friends communicate. I hear high school students talk to each other with words that some people would classify as hate speech and the banter is back and forth.
It would seem to me that adults need to allow young people to work out some things for themselves, without crying hate speech and making a mountain out of a mole hill. The second observation would be that the rich and famous should realize that they are really ordinary people too, and therefore really deserve NO special treatment.
The right to freedom of speech is another issue that comes under the hate speech issue. I have the right to disagree with the homosexual community's life style, and say so in a public forum, however under some people ideas of "hate speech", I could be in trouble.We have to guard the right to speak freely, given the way the rest of the world is moving and America is following we may be head down the road of restrictive speech laws. In some countries it is now against the law to speak out against things that you disagree with, even preachers fall under these laws and are forced to follow restrictive speech laws.
Thomas Jefferson, is quoted as saying that he would rather have  the right to freedom of the press and freedom of speech than the right to vote.  If  freedom of the press and freedom of speech and the freedom to worship is really very important to Americans, perhaps it is time to return to common sense and understand that not everything we disagree with is hate speech.