Susan Benesch and Cathy Buerger will speak on our recently released publications, reviewing and evaluating the literature on two important questions: Is speech a driver of intergroup violence? And is counterspeech an effective response to hatred?
Read MoreA close advisor to the prime minister of Ethiopia – the world’s 12th most populous country – used an extreme, textbook example of dangerous speech, calling for the Tigray people to be wiped from the face of the earth and from history.
Read MoreU.S. Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) spoke out against dangerous speech, violence, and lies – and was punished by her colleagues as a result.
Read MoreToday Facebook’s Oversight Board correctly upheld the company’s decision to suspend Donald Trump from its platforms, but disappointingly relied only on a narrow basis that was different from the obvious and vital one: inciting violence.
Read MoreAlthough Trump remains banned from Facebook and Twitter, Trump-ism is far from gone. The greatest, lasting damage his rhetoric did was not the January 6 riot –- awful as it was — but rather the impression he has left upon so many well-intentioned Americans that he remains a necessary, even God-ordained defender of their faith and values.
Read MoreDonald Trump’s lawyers tried to defend him against charges of inciting the Capitol riot by arguing that many Democrats have used similar language, including the word “fight”. But it’s not the same.
Read MoreOriginally published in IntLawGrrls. Susan Benesch is an American journalist and scholar of speech who is known for founding the Dangerous…
Read MoreAs a matter of symbolism, the January 6th attack dealt an immeasurable blow to democracy, one that will galvanize violent white supremacists for generations to come.
Read MoreAwful though it was that thugs smashed their way into the Capitol last week, it might do the United States good in the end.
Read MoreMake no mistake: Donald Trump bears responsibility for the fact that hundreds of people are in Washington D.C. today, in the streets and even inside the U.S. Capitol, many of whom have been threatening violence in gruesome, explicit terms.
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