When Does Free Speech Become Hate Speech?

Janine H
5 min readFeb 1, 2020
Photo by Sandy Millar on Unsplash

Imagine this: A group of young conservatives, outraged by the public funding of a library story time featuring drag queens reading to children decide to disrupt the event. They surround the readers chanting ‘drag queens are not for kids.’

Children are traumatised, the drag queens are forced to defend themselves and parents who gave permission for their kids to be there are outraged. The whole…

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