THIS IS SCARY Yesterday, a group of people in Scotland protested a new hate speech law. “The irony of this hateful, spiteful law coming into play on April’s Fools Day…”

Yesterday, a group of people in Scotland protested a new hate speech law. “The irony of this hateful, spiteful law coming into play on April’s Fools Day…” said one of the protesters. “Criminalizing free speech in this country is absolutely disgraceful.” While I was happy to see the protest, I am deeply alarmed that the Scottish government passed the law in the first place. @JK_Rowling rightly wrote on X that the law gives the government the power to arrest people who refuse to call male rapists and murderers “women” and “she” and “her” if that’s what those men demand. The…