Dangerous Metaphors: How Dehumanizing Rhetoric Works
Dr. Anna Szilagyi describes how dehumanizing rhetoric – a key hallmark of Dangerous Speech – affects our thoughts and perceptions, making violence more acceptable.
Read MoreDr. Anna Szilagyi describes how dehumanizing rhetoric – a key hallmark of Dangerous Speech – affects our thoughts and perceptions, making violence more acceptable.
Read MoreFrancis Wade, author of the new book Myanmar’s Enemy Within, describes how language has been used to falsely justify violence…
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Read MoreGuest blogger Dr. Anna Szilagyi describes how politicians including Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump portray the term “political correctness” as…
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Read MoreIn Charlottesville, Americans watched barriers to Dangerous Speech go down in broad daylight, in the middle of a city, as extremists waved swastikas and chanted hateful slogans. Some people are taking matters into their own hands, reaching out to masses of others to identify and punish marchers in the ‘Unite the Right’ rally, but online shaming often goes too far, reaching into a person’s offline life to inflict punishment
Read MoreIn this essay, Susan Benesch points out that content ‘takedown’ by Internet companies is not the only solution to harmful speech online. She highlights projects organized by civil society – not governments or platforms – to diminish harmful speech and support its targets. It was published by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society in a collection of essays on harmful speech online.
Read MoreThe extremist violence in Charlottesville didn’t come out of the blue: it has been brewing, openly, for a long time. Donald Trump should have been prepared to denounce it. He wasn’t, and that only legitimizes the hate-fueled movement.
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