Hate speech: how to identify hate speech in media content? Is it free speech or hate speech that is practiced?
ID: 123789
Date:April 14, 2020
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1- How to identify hate speech in media content?
We can identify the hate speech as anything attack someone or group or calls for violence against them or bothering them by comments, memes ,groups or using words likely to excite hostility or bring into contempt any groups,for example:
" I hate all Muslims"
President Donald Trump has often labeled the coronavirus as the “Chinese virus.” which resulted in xenophobia.-
A video on Sky news Australia titled "China willfully inflicted coronavirus upon the world."
A lot of people are using racist hashtags such as #Kungflu, #chinesevirus and #communistvirus as they tweet about the pandemic.
Republican senator John Cornyn (a political person) said in a conversation with reporters “China is to blame because the culture where people eat bats and snakes and dogs and things like that,” , “These viruses are transmitted from the animal to the people, and that’s why China has been the source of a lot of these viruses like SARS, like MERS, the swine flu, and now the coronavirus.”
2- Is it free speech or hate speech that is practiced?
It is not a free speech as a lot of people think because free speech when you criticize any information or other's opinion without harming them by the deferent ways, for example:
When someone don't agree with you or he think the idea is wrong will try to give you the evidence or reasons ,without any bad words or bothering.
Understanding:
Hate speech:
Sometimes comes for political goals.
It effects in people's behaviors as we can see it in social media now a days against china and how Chinese suffering in most of countries especially in America.
It is one of main reasons of soft wars, hate crimes, fake news, suicide and other human's problems.
It affects mental health
It spread so much in twitter and face book and both of them have the report button so we have to teach each other the suitable time of using it, as one of ways to reduce this problem.
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References:
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-identify-and-report-hate-speech-on-social-media-1831018803
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3077376/coronavirus-prompts-surge-hate-speech-toward
https://qz.com/1823608/how-anti-china-sentiment-is-spreading-on-social-media/











