No double standard on hate speech

EDITORIAL: The Australian Federal Courts decision to uphold the finding that Senator Pauline Hanson engaged in racial discrimination by telling fellow Muslim Senator Mehreen Faruqi to piss off back to Pakistan is a significant affirmation of the principle that hate speech has no place in a democratic society. The court rightly recognized that expressions intended to humiliate, intimidate, or marginalize individuals on the basis of their identity are not protected simply because they are framed…