Re: Living in USA
You can read about the First Amendment here…
First Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The **First Amendment (**Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.
Good you brought that up. Whether free speech is considered “slander” is up to the courts to decide. However, any free speech that may be derogatory to a group/person does not automatically become slander.