HATE SPEECH 🤭
Hate speech is any form of expression that ui intends to attack a person or a group by inciting violence or prejudice on the basis of attributes such as race, religion, ethnicity, sex, disability, sexual orientation and other social abuses. Some perceived it as a part of free speech and is either legal or illegal depending on the governing administration. Specifically an expression is considered as hate speech when it includes such circumstances. Following are the social grounds :
(A)AGGRESSIVE WORDS : Personal and apt to incite immediate retaliation.
(B)INCITEMENT TO VIOLENCE : Words that are calculated to result in an actual attack in the future such as genocides, physical bullying and other forms of hate crime.
(C) TRUE THREAT : Threatening or intimidating statements intended to be fulfilled in the immediate future.
(D) LIBEL OR SLANDER: Both are types of defamation, libel which can take place in any medium while slander is verbal.
(E) HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT : Workplaces which create environments that encourage harassment and social abuse.
(F) PURPOSE : Hate speech incites harm or violence against others and does not respect pertinent limitations.
(G) ENCOURAGED VIOLENCE : Hate speech encourages violence by deliberately offending the other party and supporting discriminatory acts.
(H) SOCIAL IMPACT ON SOCIETY :Hate speech creates unnecessary factions within a society due to the aggressive content which may further lead to the community's deterioration.
(I) EFFECT ON ONESELF :Publicly stating homophobic, racist and other discriminatory remarks under hate speech does not only hurt others but oneself as well. For instance, people who ridicule others also get ridiculed in return and get socially punished.
(J) ATTITUDE TOWARDS MINORITY : Hate speech discriminates the minority by disseminating offensive remarks.
(K) HATE CRIME : Hate speech is more associated with hate crimes as it promotes content regarding abusive acts. For instance, certain mass killings were said to be preceded by hate speech.
Hate speech degrades society social norms. It often leads to social punishment and encourages abuse. Hate speech includes aggressive words, incitement to violence, true threat, libel or slander and hostile environment. It basically deal with the expression of thoughts and feelings, this makes their differences blurry for some people. Also, these expressions get encouraged by digital development due to the protection of anonymity.
