The expression "mollify an entire population" (the centre, if I read it correctly) of the argument cited by Bearded Bruce, seems short of rational meaning.

The freeway construction argument arises, if the facts are accurately stated, out of defective application of "positive discrimination" principles, not the perfectly correct notion that one should seek to alleviate disadvantage.

And positive discrimination is nothing to do with "hate laws" - and "hate laws" are nothing to do with thought crime.