“Hate speech is spoken words that are offensive, insulting, and/or threatening to an individual or group based on a particular attribute of that person or persons being targeted. Targeted attributes include such traits as ethnic background, sexual orientation, race, or disability, though there are other target attributes. In the U.S., another term for hate speech is “fighting words,” as such talk is likely to provoke an otherwise reasonable person into acting rashly against speaker doing the provoking”(Legal Dictionary, 2017, para.3) With so much social media and other technological outlets available in today’s society, hate speech can also be words that are posted on those sites or spoken in pod casts or news casts etc. In 2014 several Democratic House Representatives “proposed legislation that would require the government to study hate speech on the Internet, mobile phones and television and radio” (Kasperowicz, 2014, para.1). One of the debates …show more content…
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