Hate Speech
The term hate speech (English for hate speech, hate speech, sedition ) denotes linguistic expressions which are to exclusion or discrimination against certain individuals or groups, or even to violence against them incentives.
Term use
Especially in the United States the term Hate Speech is used in legal, political and sociological discourses. In German-speaking fall of expression to incite hatred, under the legislation on sedition ( Germany ) or incitement ( Austria ) or the racist criminal standard ( Switzerland ). The German term hate speech represents a translation of Hate Speech to Hate Speech dar. also includes the use of Ethnophaulismen.
Legal Aspects
In the legal assessment, there are substantial differences between the states. In the United States free expression be protected, do not actually represent a call to violence. The criteria are interpreted strictly: Even a speech that justifies the violence or contains racial slurs, is largely protected, if not provable, that there will be " immediate violence ". However, many private American institutions, especially universities, to adopt their own, more stringent rules against " hate speech " in their area. Rules of public universities, which should prohibit appropriate behaviors were, however, restricted by American dishes again and again.
A consistent limitation, however, is the development of a specific provision for the denial of the Holocaust and other genocides. There are differences in particular within the European Union, have erected high barriers against hate speech in France, Austria and Germany, while in the UK and Hungary, many forms of hate speech are protected.
The Roman Catholic Church sanctioned hate speech and sermons by church members under certain circumstances specified in canon law with ecclesiastical penalties.