The Difference Between Controversial Discourse and Hate

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The Difference Between Controversial Discourse and Hate

By Suzi Chase, 4/26

https://www.susans.org/2016/04/26/difference-controversial-discourse-hate/

This is not the first time I've wrestled with the question of when support for a particular candidate or political action represents legitimate participation in a democracy and when it is hate. Before the Obergefell decision affirmed the right to marriage, I couldn't help but see opposition to same-sex unions as an expression of hate.

Listening to the public debate about transgender bathroom rights has convinced me there are two levels of discourse, one expressive of concerns and the other hateful.

[Tessa James]

Thank you for another well thought out and reasoned essay Suzi.

Silence is another voice of complicity and our visibility or invisibility factor in on the pace of change.

I appreciate your continued voice for speaking out.