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As soon as you tell that racist joke, whisper to your friends about that other “crazy” religion, debate against equal rights or share that xenophobic post on Facebook, you are spreading the fear like a sickness.

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I honestly remember thinking to myself “why are we doing this? Is it because this woman is wearing a cloth on her head?” Then it clicked — this was a BAD thing — and right then and there I died. I knew in the deepest part of my soul that what I was doing was VERY WRONG.

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As everyone knows, hate speech isn’t free speech, and it isn’t protected by the First Amendment.