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In The UK, "Hate Speech" Is Quickly Becoming "Anything We Don't Like"

Criminal charges for offensive tweets, arrests for drunken singing, and ankle tags for quoting song lyrics. This is the state of modern-day Britain.

By Freya India4 min read
In The UK, "Hate Speech" Is Quickly Becoming "Anything We Don't Like"

In the past few weeks alone, police in England and Wales have announced that they are set to record misogyny as a hate crime, a cartoon image of Prophet Mohammed shown at a school led to the suspension of a teacher (who now fears for his life), an Oxford student has been investigated for racism for singing along to a rap song, and the Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that “cancel culture” now threatens the future of the Church.