Shira Tarrant
Posted: April 25, 2010 10:49 AM
Free Speech. Hate Speech.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shira-tarrant/free-speech-hate-speech_b_550710.htmlSex slavery yields around $12 billion a year and harms about 4 million women, girls, and young boys around the world. On April 23, 2010 Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law the state's undocumented immigration law (aka "breathing while brown"). Psychology professor Kevin MacDonald continues to receive attention for promoting anti-Semitic arguments and remains the darling of white supremacist bigots. Between 2006 and 2008, violence toward queer and transgender people increased 26 percent.
Connecting these global dots is the fact that hate-speech, hate-motivated violence, and gender-based crime can incite widespread fear, frustration, isolation, and anger, even among those who are not directly victimized.
