How does hate speech affect young people? What can we (parents, guardians, and educators) do about it?
The organization ‘Common Sense Education’ talked to young people about hate speech. In these conversations, young people raised burning issues and also sensible solutions. How do young people define hate-speech? In Common Sense Education interviews, young people said that hate speech is any message that is threatening or meant to hurt someone because of their […]
Why we need to stop hate speech, and urgently
Many of the cruelest events of human history started with hate speech. In Rwanda, Tutsi people were called cockroaches and snakes for decades. Radio and newspapers regularly published hateful and wrong information about their communities. Eventually, hate against them became so normal that the killing of 1 million Tutsi people, in 100 days, seemed to […]
10 things you should know about hate speech
What is hate speech? Hate Speech is speech that expresses hatred, hostility, or distaste toward or about a person on the basis of the person’s membership in a particular type of group. Who does hate speech affect? Anyone can be a victim of hate speech. Most commonly, the group referred to in hate speech has […]
