Evidencing the harms of hate speech

The ways in which targeted communities experience hate speech is an important, but often neglected, component of the debate over the legitimacy of hate speech laws. This article reports on data drawn from interviews conducted with 101 members of Indigenous and minority ethnic communities in Australi...

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Published in:	Social identities Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 324 - 341
Main Authors:	Gelber, Katharine, McNamara, Luke
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon Routledge 03-05-2016 Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects:	Aboriginal Australians Australia Ethnic groups Ethnicity free speech harm Hate crimes Hate speech Indigenous peoples Legitimacy Minority groups racism Australia
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Summary:	The ways in which targeted communities experience hate speech is an important, but often neglected, component of the debate over the legitimacy of hate speech laws. This article reports on data drawn from interviews conducted with 101 members of Indigenous and minority ethnic communities in Australia regarding their experiences of hate speech. We give voice to targets' experiences of face-to-face and more widely broadcast hate speech, and outline the constitutive and consequential harms they claim to have suffered. We assess these against the alleged harms of hate speech in the literature, finding a close correlation between targets' reports and the literature.
ISSN:	1350-4630 1363-0296
DOI:	10.1080/13504630.2015.1128810