hate speech

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/18/2020
  

  Amazon Bans, Then Reinstates, Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’

  The retailer is trying to do two contradictory things: Ban hate literature but allow free speech.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  7-5-18
  

  Declaration of Independence Flagged as Hate Speech by Facebook

  Facebook was forced to apologize to a local publisher in Texas this week for removing a post containing text from the Declaration of Independence after classifying it as “hate speech.”

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• SOURCE: The Times of Israel
  12-9-16
  

  90 Holocaust organizations, 70 educators bemoan rise in hate speech

  Surge in anti-Semitism, intolerance in wake of US presidential elections ‘alarms’ scholars.

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• 5-9-15
  

  Talking Honestly About Islamic Hate Speech

  by Timothy R. Furnish

  At a conference in Boston scholars and journalists broached the subject many others refuse to acknowledge.

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• 3-19-15
  

  The Long History of Hate Speech

  by M. Alison Kibler

  The terms have changed, from racial ridicule to group libel and then hate speech, but the regulation of hate speech stands out as twentieth century tradition, not a new culture war.

• SOURCE: Queen's University Journal
  7-19-13
  

  Queen's University history prof. victim of hate letters

  A woman who received two threatening letters on Wednesday for being in a same-sex relationship is revealed to be Queen’s University history professor Karen Dubinsky.Dubinsky and her partner Susan Belyea say they received two letters that claimed affiliation with a Christian group based in the “Deep South,” which told the couple to move from Kingston or be subject to “deadly serious consequences.”...

• SOURCE: NYT
  3-5-13
  

  Swastikas, slurs drawn on Black History Month posters at Oberlin

  ...In the last month, racist, anti-Semitic and antigay messages have been left around [Oberlin College], a jarring incongruity in a place with the liberal political leanings and traditions of Oberlin, a school of 2,800 students in Ohio, about 30 miles southwest of Cleveland. Guides to colleges routinely list it as among the most progressive, activist and gay-friendly schools in the country.The incidents included slurs written on Black History Month posters, drawings of swastikas and the message “Whites Only” scrawled above a water fountain. After midnight on Sunday, someone reported seeing a person dressed in a white robe and hood near the Afrikan Heritage House. Mr. Krislov and three deans announced the sighting in a community-wide e-mail early Monday morning....