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  Homophobic hate speech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Homophobic hate speech is a controversial way of referring to speech which is taken to be offensive to gay men and lesbians and many other unbiased citizens.
"Homophobic hate speech" is now a criminal offence in many countries, and is extremely controversial in many others due to the aformentioned issues of censorship.
In the United States, almost all forms of hate speech are legal under the Constitution, unless used to directly incite a specific act of violence, or a direct threat of violence.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homophobic_hate_speech   (406 words)

  
 Homophobic hate speech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Homophobic hate speech is a controversial way of referring to speech which is taken to be both " hate speech " and " homophobic " (both of which are terms under heavy debate).
"Homophobic hate speech" is now a criminal offence in many countries, and is extremely controversial due to the aformentioned attempts to invoke censorship and administrate newspeak.
Hate Crimes: The State Laws Overview of hate crime legislation in the various United States compiled by MSNBC News.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Homophobic_hate_speech.html   (664 words)

  
 Homophobic hate speech: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Homophobic hate speech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Homophobic hate speech is hate speech directed against homosexuals which is taken to be homophobic.
One such context is within phrases or anti-gay slogans used by groups with a homophobic agenda, another common form of hate speech.
Homophobic hate speech is now a criminal offence in many countries.
www.encyclopedian.com /ho/Homophobic-hate-speech.html   (243 words)

  
 Talk:Homophobic hate speech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Homophobic hate speech is hate speech or is thoughtcrime directed against homosexuals which is taken to be homophobic.
It uses the term 'hate speech' as tho it were an NPOV lable for anything, rather than an offense to freedom and intellectual dignity.
Secondly, even if "homophobic hate speech" is legislated against, it would not constitute "legislating morality" any more than legislating against "racist hate speech" (as in some countries) would be.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Homophobic_hate_speech   (2313 words)

  
 Homophobic hate speech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Homophobic hate speech is a controversial way of referring to speech which is taken to be both "hate speech" and "homophobic" (both of which are terms under heavy debate).
Some might think of it as protecting homosexuals from abuse and unwarranted hostility, whereas others often think of such concepts/laws as regulations against "thoughtcrime", and otherwise restricting/interfering with free speech.
Others see this as an attempt to legislate morality at best, and at worst an attempt at destroying the religious rights ability to proclaim its values, in other words enforced political correctness.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/homophobic_hate_speech   (415 words)

  
 Law Abstracts Zanghellini
The Law, in limiting pornography on the basis of the radical feminist rationale that assimilates it to hate speech, ends up making strong and arbitrary claims to truth, that are premised on doubtful assumptions, silence alternative knowledges, subjugate outsiders’ experiences, and contribute to the creation of oppressive social identities.
Hate speech seems more evidently linked to discrimination than pornography, and speech act theory suggests that it enacts a specific kind of subordination.
However, the role played by homophobic hate speech in perpetuating inequality for queers is limited when compared to other social/discursive practices: thus hate speech laws are the easiest but also, taken on their own, a largely ineffective way of responding to homophobia.
www.library.ubc.ca /law/abstracts/zanghellini.html   (316 words)

  
 Homophobia : Homophobic
Homophobic beliefs and attitudes can be held by people independent of their sexual orientation.
Some gender theorists interpret the fact that male/male activities or relationships often incite a stronger reaction in a homophobic person than female/female (lesbian) activities or relationships, as meaning that the homophobic person feels threatened by the perceived subversion of the gender paradigm in male/male sexual activity.
Some laws have been made to oppose homophobia, as in hate speech, hate crime, and laws against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
www.fastload.org /ho/Homophobic.html   (1454 words)

  
 Media Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hate speech based on race or ethnicity or gender is typically more hurtful and painful to the listener than are other types of generic insults.
Hate speech, however, is different in a very fundamental way than the insulting, critical speech that warrants first amendment protection even when it is directed at a specific individual.
Hate speech is particularly low value speech, not because it is a manifestation of reprehensible ideas, which it clearly is, but because it serves no purpose other than to cause injury.
www.orono.k12.mn.us /apage/HighSchool/MediaCenter/newdebate.html   (15130 words)

  
 Homophobia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This notion suggests that when expressing homophobic viewpoints and emotions, the individual who does so is not only expressing his thoughts as to homosexuals, but also actively attempting to distance himself from this category and attributed social status.
Besides public expression, specific laws have been made to oppose homophobia, as in hate speech, hate crime, and laws against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
It is usually not the case, for homophobic persons, that the basis of their attitudes towards homosexuality is rational reasoning, or intellectual argumentation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homophobic   (2744 words)

  
 Hate Speech on Campus
Speech that deeply offends our morality or is hostile to our way of life warrants the same constitutional protection as other speech because the right of free speech is indivisible: When one of us is denied this right, all of us are denied.
Because the ultimate power to decide what speech is offensive and to whom rests with the authorities the government or a college administration not with those who are the alleged victims of hate speech.
The ACLU believes that hate speech stops being just speech and becomes conduct when it targets a particular individual, and when it forms a pattern of behavior that interferes with a student's ability to exercise his or her right to participate fully in the life of the university.
www.aclufl.org /take_action/download_resources/info_papers/16.cfm   (1961 words)

  
 GAP :: Current Issues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A recent extreme example of hate speech has not so far received much publicity in this country, although it is being increasingly reported in the overseas press and on the internet (a copy of an article from The Australian is attached).
They have to cope with frequent homophobic “hate speech” from fellow pupils and even sometimes teachers, which inevitably leads to bullying, sometimes to an alarming degree.
Of course any legislation on hate speech would be very difficult to frame, and the balance between free speech and the right of people to live without fear of hatred and violence is a delicate one.
www.gap.org.nz /current/hatespeech.php   (1132 words)

  
 Gay disease   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Historically, the term has been used by doctors, particularly in the 1970s, but there is no evidence that a gay-specific disease is even possible.
The term is currently used predominantly by religious objectors to homosexuality, and may be considered homophobic hate speech.
It can also be a form of homophobic hate speech.
www.bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/g/ga/gay_disease.html   (553 words)

  
 [Cause-members] FW: Higher Ed LGBT Articles Digest #129   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hate speech and hate crimes are on the same spectrum of violence, beginning with subtle homophobic language and ending in murder.
The ACLU even states that "only a handful of several thousand" of their cases involve "offensive speech." The only time courts acknowledge or prosecute hate speech is when someone yells "faggot" or "dyke" at a queer individual while murdering or raping him or her.
Spraying a swastika on the wall of the Jewish Student Union is a hate crime because the vandalism is motivated by the victims' religion.
listbot.csustan.edu /pipermail/cause-members/2003-June/000212.html   (10275 words)

  
 GAP :: News & Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
There has been a number of attempts to argue that "hate speech" does not lead to violence at all, and that anyone can say what they like about a group of people without it having any effect on others' actions against that group.
A recent extreme example of hate speech has not so far received much publicity in this country, although it is being increasingly reported in the overseas press and on the internet (there is a relevant article from The Australian at: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10628670%255E31502,00.html).
They have to cope with frequent homophobic "hate speech" from fellow pupils and even sometimes teachers, which inevitably leads to bullying, often to an alarming degree.
www.gap.org.nz /news/index.php?view=news&action=write1&id=133   (1807 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Homophobia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Homophobia (sometimes heterosexism, straight supremacism or gay-bashing) is the fear or hatred of homosexuality and homosexual people.
Homophobia has legal definitions in some countries, for example in the controversial gay panic defense, a form of insanity defense, or in hate crime legislation.
Extreme cases of homophobia have resulted in cases of murder in the United States (see hate crime) in which a person was killed due to their perceived homosexuality, although in some cases is it not at all clear the person was actually homosexual.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Homophobia   (366 words)

  
 Countering Cyberhate: More Regulation or More Speech? - Human Rights Magazine, Summer 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
According to hate crimes statutes in many states, including Illinois, the same message, embodied in a message on a telephone answering machine would provide the basis for a hate crime prosecution.
Although hate filled e-mail messages and private chat room conversations containing offensive language have been a growing concern, most of the debate has centered around hate-based Websites that have increased in recent years.
Helen Zia, a noted author and frequent commentator on hate speech issues, believes that the real issue is the right of every person to live safely and to be respected.
www.abanet.org /irr/hr/sum98cacas.html   (1661 words)

  
 firstamendmentcenter.org: Internet & First Amendment in Speech - Topic
The Mitchell court thus seemed to suggest that “hate speech” remains a conundrum: The only way it can be prohibited is if the statute that does so is “content-neutral” — yet the point of proscribing hate speech in the first place is to proscribe the content of the speech.
Some of the doctors whose names appeared on the list sued the ACLA on grounds that, among other things, the speech on the Web site “robbed the doctors of their anonymity and gave violent anti-abortion activists the information to find them” and praised the slaying/injuring of the doctors on the list.
Although not a “hate speech” case per se, the case sheds some light on how courts may handle such a case in the future.
www.firstamendmentcenter.org /speech/internet/topic.aspx?topic=internet_hate_speech   (1092 words)

  
 4Reference || Fudgepacker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
-- BCorr ¤ Брайен 14:04, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC) ** If the content merged into Homophobic hate speech is kept (and I see no reason why it shouldn't be, as it is as valid an example of homophobic hate speech as any), then deletion after merging is not an option.
However, given the article's short length, its content could reasonably be moved to Homophobic hate speech, replacing the original article with a redirect.
But abbreviation of that content (except where duplicated, or found to be wrong or unsupported) would not be appropriate.
www.4reference.net /encyclopedias/wikipedia/Fudgepacker.html   (510 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
"Butler's exploration of racist, sexist, and homophobic language is hence of acute significance to anyone concerned with the sociopolitical and theoretical implications of hate speech." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Excitable Speech is powerful for its account of how subjects are formed through the address of hate speech and how, through this very address, the conditions for the subject's agency are enabled.
Butler does a good job grounding speech act theory in political and legal issues, particularly racist and homophobic "hate speech." She takes Derrida's theory of iterability and shows how repetition of discourse in new contexts can be a means of resistance.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415915880?v=glance   (1948 words)

  
 Discriminations: Hate Speech? Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the Office of Civil Rights is investigating a possible hate speech incident at the University of North Carolina.
She calls this hate speech, while holding a position at a university that regularly allows far uglier comments about men, non-minorities and Christians, both in the lecture halls and the campus papers.
I'm opposed to hate speech codes, but can see the rationale behind them which is that by pointing out a person's race, sexual orientation, religion, gender, etc., as part of an attack on him, one is as well threatening anyone else who fits those criteria.
www.discriminations.us /storage/002561.html   (4312 words)

  
 Rap Music Online - Free MP3 Downloads - Ringtones - RapMusic - Hip Hop - HipHop - Rap Videos
At the same time, they could not let the xenophobic tendencies of these acts pass unnoticed, or ignore the frequent quasi-celebration in much rap music of misogyny, drugs, and violence, and the status to be gained in the urban community by the practice thereof.
Many critics find their line between art and reality too thin, and hate to see them spreading their gospel from the top of the charts (2Pac's 1995 album "Me Against the World" debuted at No. 1 even as he was serving a prison sentence), or serve as role models for international youth.
Gangsta rap may have gotten a lot of the headlines in recent years, but the field of rap as a whole remains diverse and not as dominated by the shoot-'em-out minidramas of gangsta rap, as many would have you believe.
rap.music.us   (2904 words)

  
 Gay Mafioso: 10/01/2004 - 10/31/2004
We must attack homophobic hate speech whenever and wherever we see it — globally, nationally or locally.
Even more fun than making Lynne Cheney eat her words is scanning the hilarious reviews of her tedious lesbian novel at amazon.com, where a first edition copy went up for auction this week.
GAY MAFIOSO is an organized attack on hateful speech, unenlightened thinking and homophobic rants — wherever and whenever it occurs.
gaymafioso.blogspot.com /2004_10_01_gaymafioso_archive.html   (1164 words)

  
 hate speech - OneLook Dictionary Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "hate speech" is defined.
hate speech : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Phrases that include hate speech: homophobic hate speech, racist hate speech
www.onelook.com /?w=hate+speech&ls=a   (95 words)

  
 homophobic hate speech in TutorGig Encyclopedia
Some might think of laws against it as protecting homosexuals from abuse and unwarranted hostility, whereas others often think of such laws and regulations against " thoughtcrime", and otherwise restricting/interfering with free speech.
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 8theist.com Welcomes You!! - Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Certain passages of the Bible can be construed as hate literature if placed in a particular context, according to a Canadian provincial court.
Imagine "the hand-wringing if ever a federal court labeled the Quran hate literature and forced a devout Muslim to pay a fine for printing some of his book's more astringent passages in an ad in a daily newspaper," wrote Lorne Gunter in the Edmonton, Alberta, daily.
In 1998, an Ontario man was convicted of hate crimes for an incident in which he distributed pamphlets about Islam outside a high school.
8theist.com /Archives.htm   (3278 words)

  
 Gay Opinion Blog: May 2003
Protecting families from government interference to assure that adoption, child custody and visitation not be denied based on one's sexual orientation.
Oregon Daily Emerald, Commentary about homosexuals didn't rise to level of hate speech.
It sends a message that undercuts the state's ability to attract many national companies that recognize the value of employees who happen to be gay.
opinion.gaynewsblog.net /2003_05_01_opinion_archive.html   (3481 words)

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