Banning Hate Speech doesn’t work and makes racism worse

On Saturday, a synagogue in California was attacked by an apparently self-professed homicidal racist. The attacker has supposedly explicitly said that he was partly inspired by the xenophobic mass-murderers responsible for the mosque attacks in New Zealand last month. Since that attack, New Zealand has been debating strengthening their hate speech laws. Now, the debate over whether America should create hate-speech laws at all has been reinvigorated.

If the intent of censoring public speech is to prevent violence then hate-speech laws…