David Green

Hate-crime laws are making us all victims

Now that the Government has asked the Law Commission to investigate whether new groups should be added to those already covered by hate-crime laws, the UK’s culture of grievance and victimhood has finally reached peak absurdity. Ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, religion, and transgender people already have protected status, but now it is possible that age and gender will also be added.

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