Tuesday, September 16, 2008

WHEN FREE SPEECH BECOMES HATE SPEECH

Shuck and Jive offers "When Free Speech Becomes Hate Speech." Excerpt:

Language that dehumanizes other groups of people because of their ethnicity, gender, religion, political views, sexual orientation or whatever, can result in actual violence against particular groups of people. It is called hate speech. I am becoming convinced that a culture of hate speech, which is what we have today, will lead to increased violence.

I was thinking about this in light of Dr. Robert Jensen's article the other day: Few of us are guilty, but all are responsible. We all are esponsible for the language that we use and the language we accept as normative.

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