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hate speech

Speech that expresses hatred towards individuals or groups

Entitylegal term or legal concept violation of lawQ653347

Instance of: legal term or legal concept
, violation of law
Subclass of: agitation

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Hate speech is a term with varied meaning and has no single, consistent definition. According to Cambridge Dictionary, hate speech is defined as "public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation". Similarly, the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution states that hate speech is "usually thought to include communications of animosity or disparagement of an individual or a group on account of a group characteristic such as race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion, or sexual orientation". Hate speech can include incitement based on social class or political beliefs and target minority or majority groups. There is no single definition of what constitutes "hate" or "disparagement". Legal definitions of hate speech vary from country to country.

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46 statements · 20% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

ACM Classification Code (2012): 10003482
Different from: profanity
hate crime
Facet of: freedom of speech criterion used: liberalism
Has effect: violence
prejudice
defamation
Cause: human overpopulation

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34 identifiers linking hate speech across the web's reference databases

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20%

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