Tag: Hate speech
The Israel Folau case: the weaponising of hate speech
Posted by John, June 26th, 2019 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Christianity, Hate speech
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In writing about the Folau saga recently, I showed compassion to those rank and file Christians who felt under threat. As time goes on however it is becoming clearer (to me anyway) that some of those ordinary Christians have fallen or are falling for a campaign of hate disguised as religious freedom. As I pointed […]
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Hate speech, legislation and resistance
Posted by John, August 9th, 2016 - under Vilification.
Tags: Hate speech
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Muslims are not the cause of growing inequality, falling real wages and the increasing precarity of employment. Neither are priests, or refugees, or Aborigines, or Asians, or blacks. [Fill in your favourite target for bigotry here.] This means that, as Jeremy Corbyn, the next Prime Minister of the UK has done and is doing, the task of the left is to explain that it is the economic system which produces these outcomes. We can and must offer hope of a better world to those who in the absence of any left wing alternative might be tempted by the siren song of racism or Islamophobia or violence.