Against ‘Hate Speech’

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ID21497565
AutoresDirk Kindermann (0000-0003-1821-3605, University of Vienna Vienna Austria, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume40
Fascículo5
Páginas813-835
Data de publicação2023-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Applied Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0264-3758 • E-ISSN: 1468-5930
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/japp.12648
OpenAlexW4362700245
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas33

This article argues against the term and concept of ‘hate speech’ and in favour of using the concept and term ‘discriminatory speech’. ‘Hate speech’ is a misnomer; we should name the harmful speech in question by what it in fact does: it discriminates. The article argues for this conceptual replacement claim by identifying a number of functions the concept ‘hate speech’ has been meant to serve and by arguing that extant concepts of hate speech have not served this function well. Roughly, they do not serve the functions well because of five properties of hate speech: hate centricity, perpetrator centricity, intention centricity, emotion centricity, and individual centricity. The article then proposes a definition of discriminatory speech and argues that it fulfils the conceptual functions better

Extant taxon · Linguistics · Misnomer · Sociology · Speech act · Education Discipline and Inequality · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology