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Hate: Hate Speech

This guide provides information on hate in our society. It focuses upon online hate and strategies for dealing with it.

What is Hate Speech? (ReasonTV Jan. 4, 2014)- 5.58 minute video)

How should "hate speech" be defined, and should it be regulated? We went to the campus of USC to ask college students, who are on the front lines of America's free speech battles. Reason is a source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective. Go to reason.com for a point of view you won't get from legacy media and old left-right opinion magazines.
https://youtu.be/skuLK0YpksI

What is Hate Speech Poll?

Do you consider these statements hate speech?  {Answers are anonymous)

These are the same questions that students were asked from the University of Southern California in the ReasonTV video

Using a racial slur
Yes: 4 votes (100%)
No: 0 votes (0%)
I don't know: 0 votes (0%)
Total Votes: 4
What if someone says Muslims should not be allowed in the United States?
Yes: 4 votes (100%)
No: 0 votes (0%)
I don't know: 0 votes (0%)
Total Votes: 4
What if someone denies the holocaust?
Yes: 4 votes (100%)
No: 0 votes (0%)
I don't know: 0 votes (0%)
Total Votes: 4
A female comedian says "men are scum"
Yes: 1 votes (25%)
No: 3 votes (75%)
I don't know: 0 votes (0%)
Total Votes: 4
"All white people are racist"
Yes: 8 votes (66.67%)
No: 3 votes (25%)
I don't know: 1 votes (8.33%)
Total Votes: 12

What do you think?

Do you think hate speech by itself is an act of violence?
Yes: 4 votes (80%)
No: 1 votes (20%)
I don't know: 0 votes (0%)
Total Votes: 5