What is Hate Speech?

What is Hate Speech?

"Hate speech consists of verbal and nonverbal expression that is used to demean, oppress, or promote violence against someone on the basis of their membership in a social or ethnic group.  Hate speech involves more than simply indicating that you dislike someone.  It also is different than simply teasing or ridiculing someone, or shouting an ugly word at them in a single moment of anger or frustration."  

"In many cases, hate speech is created by people who are part of a majority population.  Their messages typically are directed toward people who are part of a minority population.  The targets of hate speech are chosen just because they belong to that particular group of people.  The messages of hate also are designed to degrade or otherwise harm these targets for the same reason." 

                                                                                   http://www.bsu.edu/learningfromhate/hatespeech.htm

Hate speech is a communication that carries no meaning other than the expression of hatred for some group, especially in circumstances in which the communication is likely to provoke violence. It is an incitement to hatred primarily against a group of persons defined in terms of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and the like. Hate speech can be any form of expression regarded as offensive to racial, ethnic and religious groups and other discrete minorities or to women.

                                                                                   http://definitions.uslegal.com/h/hate-speech/


In law, hate speech is any speech, gesture or conduct, writing, or display which is forbidden because it may incite violence or prejudicial action against or by a protected individual or group, or because it disparages or intimidates a protected individual or group. The law may identify a protected individual or a protected group by certain characteristics.
                                                                                   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech

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