Letter: ‘Hate speech’ is a flawed concept

Recently an administrator in the Salt Lake City school district took umbrage from the following statement included in a school publication “There are two genders and a lot of mental illnesses.” He referred to this as hate speech, and seems to want to punish whoever included it.One could, though, also classify his retort as hate speech directed toward the writer of the statement. Hate speech is a flawed concept and is really in the eye of the speaker.Thus, the term “hate speech&