I Hate Myself

and hate speech, for the sake of the safety and freedoms of our country? Can the government regulate communication that constitutes a threat to the United States national security, and if so, how? The United States government was put into place to serve the people and protect not only their liberties, but also their lives. The United States government can regulate violent provoking communication by encouraging a social stigma against harmful speech, and more clearly defining the law on hate…

Hate crimes are crimes that someone commits based on their hatred to a person or a specific group of people. This may include, bias that they have against a person. But it could also be because the person doesn’t like one’s sexual orientation, religious preference, ethnic background, and quite possibly even their religion. Hate crimes are continuously growing at a fast pace according to yearly statistics and we see hate crimes all the way back to past times. Hate crimes go back in history in…

Are Hate Crime Laws Effective? Recent legislations have been passed to control the rate of bias motivated crimes in the United States. Such crimes are referred to as hate crimes and include the targeting of a victim based on their race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender, disability, etc. Those who take part in hate crimes are to be charged with tougher penalties than those who commit the same crime without bias motivation or, in other words, carry out an act on a victim…

and overbroad” (2). Due to this broad definition of the offense, defenses may be overlooked because there is no clear-cut method of defining the offense. In Sheryl Hamilton’s article, Criminalizing Expression: Obscenity and Hate Speech, she notes there are four defenses to hate speech that would fall under the freedom of expression. Firstly, if the facts stated can be proven to be true; secondly, if statements are made as part of good faith and in a religious discussion; thirdly, if the…

actions. Some of the examples would be of people who are target based on religion or race. In this paper I would establish what hate crimes is and who is the victim, who is affected in drug arrests. Furthermore, I would compare and contrasts demographics of two states for drug arrests. There has always being hate in our country but until recently active hates groups have escalated by 784 since 2014. Hate crimes are crimes that manifest evidence…

Introduction There is a problem that is looming over our society that not every many humans would like to talk about. Some say it is an epidemic, some say it is a women’s issue, others say it is not a problem at all. Just a problem made up by the media. Whatever the masses would like to say about it, the basic terminology is sexual assault or gender-based violence. There has been debate on the type of policies that should be in place for combating sexual assault on college campuses. Every…

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…

elections. According to a study of 392 campuses the Foundation for Individual Right in Education, found “that 65 percent of the colleges had policies that in our view violated the Constitution’s guarantee of the right to free speech”. ( Lukianof 775). Hate speech is…

musicians, actors, models, and blog reporters. Any person who is a part of the social media world has seen something like the following policy rules of Facebook: “You will not bully, intimidate, or harass any user. You will not post content that: is hate speech, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence”. (2) Whether the limitations are strongly enforced is another issue because in that case it is not that the world needs more…

public shaming is as common as self-righteous boycotts, Twitter hashtag social movement, and counterproductive protests. So common, in fact, that it is not unheard of for the supposed guilty party, to be entirely innocent. This is one of the reasons I cannot, in good conscience, advocate for the implementation of it as a form of punishment. Furthermore, public shaming is an unfair penalty and should not become an official penalty because it can easily become excessive, is irreversible, and,…