It seems obvious and intuitive that when people are repeatedly exposed to hate speech, extreme political, racist or sexist views, or violent drama, and pornography, over time that they would slowly adopt these views or accept the depicted behavior as normal and/or appropriate. — Bitter Crank
Over the course of 5 years Minneapolis and St. Paul witnessed several extremely violent attacks on gay men resulting in their deaths. — Bitter Crank
If Hate Speech Doesn't incite Hatred, Then Where Does Hatred Come From? — Bitter Crank
Isn't this the real problem - of people only listening to what confirms their biases and don't question what it is that they hear? The best way to combat things like this is through challenging those ideas in the arena a free ideas - through logic and reason.It seems obvious and intuitive that when people are repeatedly exposed to hate speech, extreme political, racist or sexist views, or violent drama, and pornography, over time that they would slowly adopt these views or accept the depicted behavior as normal and/or appropriate. — Bitter Crank
Research on the relationship between "message" and "behavior" doesn't support the view that certain kinds of talk leads to certain kinds of behavior. — Bitter Crank
It seems like you got it backwards. Hate speech doesn't incite hatred, it stems from hatred. Hate is first and hate speech is an effect of one's hatred. — Harry Hindu
we'd have to ask if hate is genetically conditioned — Metaphysician Undercover
Speech is behavior. For that reason, as a growing acceptance of homosexuality occurs, one should expect both violence towards it and negative speech about it to reduce. I wouldn't expect speech regulations to reduce violent behavior, but I could see both speech changes and violence changes symptomatic of the same underlying change of growing acceptance. — Hanover
That isn't all I said that causes hatred. I also said that inductive reasoning from bad experiences of a certain person, or type of person, can cause hatred. When that person or group of persons seems like a threat to your goals, then you can acquire a dislike, or hatred of that person or group of people. Hatred also stems from thinking that a difference between people can be a good/bad distinction, which leads one to hate those that are different because they have "bad" attributes.Yes, hate speech is motivated by hatred, but the question is, "Where does hatred come from?" You say, "What one hate's is usually the result of ignorance". Ignorance plays an important role in human affairs, but in itself doesn't cause hatred. I am ignorant of many of the world's people--I have almost no knowledge about Mongolians, Albanians, Uzbeks, or Argentinians, but ignorance of these peoples hasn't led to hatred. I am ignorant of Bahai, Zoroastrians, and Shinto, but I do not harbor hatred about or toward them. — Bitter Crank
LOL. So homophobes hate gays because they think they are gay themselves? So it is a case of self-loathing then? Yeah, I don't think that theory flies. I think it's more along the the lines of being ignorant and hating what is different BECAUSE you don't understand the difference.There are certain facile explanations for prejudices, like homophobia. The theory is that some people fear that they might be homosexual themselves, and project this fear as hatred onto people they suspect to be homosexual. This is probably a relatively uncommon phenomena. Ignorance = hatred is another one. — Bitter Crank
We might be genetically conditioned to be sensitive to "in-group" and "out-group" distinctions--in-group ones being favored. The capacity to feel hatred might be genetically supported, and hatred is one way to defend the in-group from the out-group. Or putting it differently, we feel antipathy towards out-groups. — Bitter Crank
But if we are genetically inclined to distinguish between in-group and out-group, we also seem quite capable of embracing people who belong to out-groups and to expel in-group members who violate some norm. — Bitter Crank
So, how has your family's views on race played out over time in your life? You don't evince prejudicial racial talk, ideas, and so on. — Bitter Crank
I conclude that both socially tolerant behavior and hatred plus a tendency towards violent behavior comes out of the matrix of human interaction and experience in a child's life long before adulthood. Home, parents, school, playground, peer groups, and social interactions are the source of prejudicial attitudes, willingness to discriminate against others, and to perform acts of violence against others. — Bitter Crank
"Hate speech" clearly exists, and "hatred" clearly exists. Violence based on hatred clearly exists, but is there a causal progression from hate speech —> hatred —> violence? No. — Bitter Crank
Broadcast speech does not significantly contribute to language acquisition in young children.
Advertising speech is not highly effective in changing consumer behavior; it is modestly effective at best. — Bitter Crank
No, broadcast speech doesn't contribute much to language — Bitter Crank
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