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hate speech
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hate speech
n.
Bigoted speech attacking or disparaging a social or ethnic group or a member of such a group.


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Even in the face of the London jihadist conference's open calls to destroy British society as it is currently constituted and impose Islamic law there, no one is quite sure what constitutes "hate speech," and that's why hate-speech laws are so dangerous.
Indeed, hate-speech censors could very well concede that bigoted expression "implicates" the First Amendment but argue that it is "so harmful that we are justified in restraining it.
The Swedish hate-speech law was patterned after a similar Canadian law.
 
 
 
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