Commentary
Legally speaking (in Canada at least), hate speech is a public utterance, publication, or symbolic representation that promotes the vilification and detestation of an identifiable group.
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Asa Boxer
Author
Asa Boxer is an award winning writer, and a founder of the Montreal International Poetry Prize, now run by McGill University. He presently edits The Secular Heretic, an online magazine for the arts and sciences. Boxer has published several books of poetry, and he also produces a weekly cultural video series called Daymakers.