Hate Speech
User-submitted hate speech is a comment that contains strongly offensive content directed against people of a specific race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. According to a Council of Europe survey, across the European Union, 78% of respondents had encountered hate speech online; 40% felt personally attacked or threatened; and 1 in 20 have posted hate speech themselves.
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Famous quotes containing the words hate and/or speech:
“You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“Are you shouting at me, dead man, squeezing your face
In agonies of speech on speechless panes?
Cry louder, beat the windows, bawl your name!”
—Kenneth Slessor (1901–1971)