Hate speech

The fight against graffiti and the perpetrators of this crime has been an ongoing problem in Melbourne and surrounding areas. Published in the Herald Sun on the 21st of January in 2014, Leonie Burke’s article, Time to Attack Graffiti discusses this problematic situation. The main contention behind her piece is to assert the fact that better strategies in managing the problem need to be implemented. She does this by discussing how previous strategies were not effective and then considers some…

The Need to Protect Hateful and Offensive Speech In today’s society, information travels almost as fast as light, thanks to the invention and development of internet technologies, however, this enables the dissemination of bad ideas, and hateful and offensive rhetoric across country lines faster than ever before. This ability to share ideas and find others with beliefs like yours has been blamed for the rise of the Islamic State, deepening political divides, and an overwhelming feeling of a…

Hate speech is a part of Queer teens daily routine and life, it can happen to anyone in the queer community which can force people to tiptoe through life. Our society is inadvertently homophobic due to how we are raised as well as the influence of “wholesome” family values. The family values we have learnt and society has reinforced has imposed on us has create an era of homophobia and aggressive behaviour to those who are different. The term “That’s so gay” is dropped into a sentence almost…

“Censorship” of Hate Speech Necessary? Current Issues: Civil Liberties defines hate speech as speech that degrades “a person’s ethnicity, language, religion, political views, or socioeconomic class” (Roleff, p.). Jeremy Waldron, a professor at New York University, wrote his book, The Harm in Hate Speech, on the thesis that hate speech “undermines the equal dignity of individual members of vulnerable minorities.” Any “well-ordered society,” according to Waldron, should restrict hate speech. He…

threats and hate speech can have many negative consequences on and off online. Hate speech is destructive to victims and society. All hate speech is problematic in so far as it targets individuals and has real consequences for them. Various studies have shown that the harms caused by hate speech can take diverse forms: for instance, you can have psychological harm which affects peoples' self-confidence and self-esteem and perhaps their ability to function in society. The reason hate speech is…

to report these crime? When victims of hate or bias crime don’t report it, they only give more to the offenders. Bennett, Levin & Mcdevitt (2002), conduct a research studies that focus on offenders and the motivations of hate crime. Researchers hypothesis was that offenders want to send a message to these minority group as a way of fear and inferiority and let victims know that there are not welcome in their community. Bennett, Levin and Mcdevitt describe hate crime offenders in four different…

people across the nation antagonize with hatred in their speech, heart, and actions. The LGBT community has struggle throughout the years with bigotry that has led to mass killings, hate speeches, and boycotts with companies. Many innocent people has suffered from lack of respect for one another, without any support from the justice system. One late, thrilling, and exciting night of June sixteenth two thousand and sixteen, a young man by…

fellow think tanker type was so dumbfounded that he stated to me; "Lance what everyone is trying to process is how a political campaign based on lies and hate speech could succeed in the most advanced economy in history." Of course, such a statement in and of itself shows just how out-of-touch this gentleman really is. You see, the lies and hate speech actually came from the other side constantly calling the right "racists" and all sorts of other derogatory things and lying to the public while…

Hate speech is ‘the advocacy of hatred based on nationality, race or religion’, and with it taking place over many platforms especially online media, the hatred is becoming increasingly ‘acceptable’. Social media sites such as Twitter allow users to express their opinions towards others without feeling like there are any consequences for their actions. The anonymity seized from being hidden behind a screen supports that deindividuation is one primary cause of online hate-speech.…

Hate Speech and trolling In the year 2016, we live in a very progressive time. We are on the heel end of the first African American presidency, women are taking major leading roles in both the film and sports industries, and same sex marriage is now legalized and more excepted than ever within all fifty states. Everything on the surface seems to be on the right track for America’s social progression. Even though everything seems fine and dandy on the surface there is a disturbing trend…