Glenn, the Human Rights tribunal decisions you're talking about obviously didn't involve issues like 'cultural appropriation' They never have.

However, they have involved (for instance) white supremacists who advocated the wholesale extermination of homosexuals and other groups they hated. That one in particular also called for global genocide of Jews and other non-Whites. That's slightly more than 'hurt feelings' perpetrated by truly dreadful people. Hard to say what kind of 'truth' would be a defense against hatred like that.  If you don't believe it, you can look it up.

I suspect most decent people would agree that awarding damages against people like that hardly adds up to 'free speech is dead.'