Dangerous Metaphors: How Dehumanizing Rhetoric Works | Dangerous Speech Project

Guest blogger Dr. Anna Szilagyi describes how dehumanizing rhetoric – a key hallmark of Dangerous Speech – affects our thoughts and perceptions, making violence more acceptable.

Dangerous Metaphors: How Dehumanizing Rhetoric Works | Dangerous Speech Project

Sasha Baron Cohen's keynote speech et the ADL Awards

If you do one thing this weekend to challenge the industrialised promotion of hate & bigotry - share this video https://t.co/sbDpCMstyW - worth watching in full #StartSpreadingLove #StopFundingHate

— Stop Funding Hate (@StopFundingHate) 23 November 2019

Please watch this magnificent speech to the end. Cohen is an educated, intelligent and impassioned speaker. He also brings some of his characters to illustrate his arguments.

Action Days countering Antisemitic Hate Speech

On the occasion of the Action Days countering Antisemitic Hate Speech, the No Hate Speech Movement is calling for civil society organisations, youth organisations and governmental institutions to join our efforts to counter the increasing antisemitic hate speech and to speak up for diversity and Human Rights as basic values of peaceful democratic culture.

Please join the Action Day by sharing this image on your social media channels and website.

Trump’s Signals to White Supremacists Aren’t Dog Whistles. They’re Flares. – Mother Jones

...Not only were extremists excited by Trump’s campaign. Not only were they using it to recruit on a scale they hadn’t imagined before. They felt that the campaign was signaling to them actively and deliberately—and the more we dug, the more we realized they were right... Trump’s Signals to White Supremacists Aren’t Dog Whistles. They’re Flares. – Mother Jones

I see no Russian trolls!

The weirdness continues.

This Russian account tweeted just once: a smear of ProPublica, that somehow got 23k RTs. pic.twitter.com/S4F1lsIJEz

— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) 25 August 2017

No Hate Speech Movement

"Hate speech, as defined by the Council of Europe, covers all forms of expression which spread, incite, promote or justify racial hatred, xenophobia, anti-Semitism or other forms of hatred based on intolerance, including: intolerance expressed by aggressive nationalism and ethnocentrism, discrimination and hostility against minorities, migrants and people of immigrant origin."

(Don't read the comments to this on YouTube: they are of course mostly ignorant hate from the very bullies the movement seeks to reeducate).

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Objectives of the No Hate campaign

• To raise awareness about hate speech online and its risks for democracy and for individual young people, and promoting media and Internet literacy;
• To support young people in standing up for human rights, online and offline;
• To reduce the levels of acceptance of online hate speech;
• To mobilise, train and network online youth activists for human rights;
• To map hate speech online and develop tools for constructive responses;
• To support and show solidarity to people and groups targeted by hate speech online;
• To advocate for the development and consensus on European policy instruments combating hate speech;
• To develop youth participation and citizenship online.

The official site of the No Hate Speech Movement is here.

You'll also find the latest posts on their site in the FEEDS section of this blog.

Far Right Watch Team: Getting Social Media Hate Speech Accounts Suspended ...

Last year, 2016, we specifically created Far Right Watch for a core reason:

To fight Online Hate Speech of every kind.

None of our team are rookies in either the fight against Far Right Extremism or in the digital arena, but this group was founded to formalise our previous co-operative efforts.

Part of this is to identify and target accounts which primarily are set up to disseminate Hate Speech, whether it's Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, Homophobia, Racism, White Supremacy or glorification of Fascism or Nazism - primarily on Twitter, but also on other Social Media platforms...

Read the rest here: Far Right Watch Team: Getting Social Media Hate Speech Accounts Suspended ...

Stop Funding Hate: People Like You

#PeopleLikeYou
Please share: What if these stories were about #PeopleLikeYou? http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/stop-funding-hate
Posted by Stop Funding Hate on Sunday, 12 March 2017

We've just released a new video highlighting how it can feel to be on the receiving end of news stories that demonise minority groups.

In 2016 the Daily Mail and Daily Express published over 1,768 pages of stories about migrants - almost all of them negative.

Experts have warned that the hate in our media is fuelling hate crime on our streets - yet companies like the Co-op, British Gas and BT continue to fund divisive news stories through their advertising.

We're stepping up our efforts to persuade the Co-op and other household names to take responsibility for the social impact of their advertising.

Please share our latest video to help build support and spread the word.

Many thanks,

Richard, Rosey and the Stop Funding Hate team