Hate speech frontiers : exploring the limits of the ordinary and legal concepts / Alexander Brown, Adriana Sinclair.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

1st edition

201609

Hate speech -- Law and legislation.

Online hate speech -- Law and legislation.

Social media -- Law and legislation.

1. Conceptual frontiers in the understanding of hate speech

Part I: The ordinary concept:

2. Prototypical examples of hate speech

3. Attacks against groups

4. Attacks on the identities of groups

Part II: The legal concept:

5. Orienting the ordinary and legal concepts of hate speech

6. Between hate speech and hate crime

7. Denialist speech

8. Epilogue.

No serious attempt to answer the question 'What is hate speech?' would be complete without an exploration of the outer limits of the concept(s). This book critically examines both the ordinary and legal concepts of hate speech, contrasting social media platform content policies with national and international laws. It also explores a range of controversial grey area examples of hate speech. Part I focuses on the ordinary concept and looks at hybrid attacks, selective attacks, reverse attacks, righteous attacks, indirect attacks, identity attacks, existential denials, identity denials, identity miscategorisations, and identity appropriations. Part II concentrates on the legal concept. It considers how to distinguish between hate speech and hate crime, and examines the precarious position of denialism laws in national and international law. Together, the authors draw on conceptual analysis, doctrinal analysis, linguistic analysis, critical analysis, and diachronic analysis to map the new frontiers of the concepts of hate speech. Enables readers to compare and contrast social and legal rules on hate speech; Assists readers in thinking about what makes something hate speech and the limits of the concept(s); Develops a theory of hate speech that enables the correct classification of grey area examples. - Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781009357135

viii, 600 pages ; 23 cm