Hate speech
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Hate speech is the repeated use of inaccurate tropes or claims in a way that serves to demonize a person or group. It is typically used as a way to consolidate or reinforce political power through demonization.
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- Dictionary:
- Cambridge Dictionary "public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence toward a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation"
- Dictionary.com "speech, writing, or nonverbal communication that attacks, threatens, or insults a person or group on the basis of national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability"
- Free Dictionary " Bigoted speech attacking or disparaging a social group or a member of such a group."
- Merriam-Webster "speech expressing hatred of a particular group of people"
- Wiktionary "Speech that attacks or disparages a person or group of persons on the basis of origin, race, nationality, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability."
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- 2023-09-27 02:00 UTC [L..T] Under India’s pressure, Facebook let propaganda and hate speech thrive «Nearly three years ago, Facebook’s propaganda hunters uncovered a vast social media influence operation that used hundreds of fake accounts to praise the Indian army’s crackdown in the restive border region of Kashmir and accuse Kashmiri journalists of separatism and sedition. [..] What they found next was explosive: The network was operated by the Indian army’s Chinar Corps, a storied unit garrisoned in the Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley, the heart of Indian Kashmir and one of the most militarized regions in the world. [..] But when the U.S.-based supervisor of Facebook’s Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB) unit told colleagues in India that the unit wanted to delete the network’s pages, executives in the New Delhi office pushed back.» ... «Those objections staved off action for a full year while the Indian army unit continued to spread disinformation that put Kashmiri journalists in danger. The deadlock was resolved only when top Facebook executives intervened and ordered the fake accounts deleted.»
- 2014-02-03 [L..T] The painful case of Pastor Scott Lively, homophobe to the world In fact, I argue, minorities are much better off in a system that protects hateful or discriminatory speech than in a system that protects them from it.