Tag: hate speech

Accessible information is the key to combatting hate groups

There’s a misconception that alt-right hate groups, while openly plaguing the US since Trump’s election, don’t have a Canadian equivalent. That belief is misinformed. Hateful ideologies exist as much in Canada as they do in the US. They existed before Trump and they’ll exist long after him. When Trump...

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Panel discussion grapples with hate speech, free speech

The past few years have seen a series of hateful incidents on Queen’s campus. A Wednesday panel discussion about free speech and hate speech cited all of them. Hosted by the Queen’s Department of Philosophy Equity Committee, the Jan. 29 event referenced 2016’s “culture party,” 2019’s anti-Semitic...

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Queen’s student called racial slur downtown

Two weeks ago, an incident of hate speech occurring on Princess Street and towards a Queen’s student was reported to Kingston Police. On Saturday Nov. 12, first-year Kinesiology student, Ampai Thammachack, was called the N-word by a stranger while sitting in the McDonald’s downtown. As Thammachack...

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