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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. In jeremy waldrons book the harm in hate speech it is not always clear whether he argues that hate speech causes harm or whether it constitutes harm this article considers this uncertainty concluding that the best understanding of waldrons argument is that hate speech tends to cause harm a weak form of the consequentialist case for its proscription. For constitutionalists regulation of hate speech violates the first amendment and damages a free society jeremy waldron rejects this view and makes the case that hate speech should be regulated as part of a commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities. 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 in keeping with my emphasis on group libel the approach i take will focus on the visual aspect of a society contaminated by posters or publications that deprecate the dignity and basic