No cries, no wailing, she walked calmly to the site, the position destined to be her place of stoning and the sharp and rapid piercing bullets ended her life in seconds. In a blink of an eye, her partner met the same fate. Their crime: living by choice.

Hate speech used to live in the shadows. You’d find it on fringe forums or in fiery sermons, but it didn’t carry much weight. That’s no longer true. Today, it sits at the center of our politics. It’s deliberate. It’s dangerous. And it’s everywhere.