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Hate speech is a slippery slope starting with defining hate speech the author says that anything that affects the dignity of another individual is hate better build more law schools and prisons because we are all in trouble by this definition. Every liberal democracy has laws or codes against hate speech except the united states for constitutionalists regulation of hate speech violates the first amendment and damages a free society. It is now time to turn attention to the social harm that hate speech does and to the substantive purpose of the legislation that aims to suppress it. Hate speech causes harm hate speech leads to consequential harm which persuades hearers to believe negative stereotypes and engage in harmful conduct while normalizing discrimination and constitutive harm which involves indirect effects related to power imbalances