It seems your humble columnist has fallen for a hoax. In our Jan. 16 column, “Freedom to Hate: The case against outlawing vile speech,” we spent a couple of paragraphs criticizing “self-described ‘human-rights activist’ ” Tanya Cohen for a ThoughtCatalog.com essay in which he denounced America for refusing to outlaw so-called hate speech: “The concept of human rights is just so utterly alien to most people in the US.”

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