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.

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.

Normalisation of extremism - David Colquhoun

I put some thoughts about normalisation of extremists on my FB page pic.twitter.com/6gVkMEZUSi

— David Colquhoun (@david_colquhoun) 15 November 2016

The Real Side: Joe Messina & the Dodgy Bedfellows

The Real Side is apparently a far-right (read bog-standard 21st century GOP) radio programme hosted by Joe Messina. No, not that Joe Messina, the Motown Funk Brother. This one “has had several successful businesses and has held several executive positions with Fortune 1000 companies.” according to this page. No details on what these big and/or companies were, oddly enough.

Funnily enough, it doesn’t exactly leap to the eye from his Facebook About page either …
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ZOMG drama! Rand Paul under attack!

I think Eugene Fear-the-Peen has been selling his illegal email spam lists again. Over the past few weeks I’ve been getting increasingly dramatic begging letters from some frantic lunatic calling himself Rand Paul.

Rand Paul, Rand Paul. I’ve heard that name before. Ah, yes, he’s a Tea Party whackjob who, on top of being linked to the extreme anti-gay hate squad (inferred from his use of the same mailing list):

• has described taxation as slavery and wants to sue the Treasury and IRS for passing tax-evasion measures; 
• was involved in the moronic shutdown of 2013, which he doesn’t regret because he hates Obamacare; 
• wants pilots to be armed (just let the idea of someone firing a gun in a pressurised cabin sink in); 
• is anti gun control no matter how many people are massacred; 
• unsurprisingly, also has ties with white supremacists; 
• appears to want the abolition of marriage (because the … 

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Encyclopedia of American Loons: #1292: Keith Ablow

Dr. Keith Ablow is a psychiatrist, author, and media personality, who tends to appear on such intellectually enlightening shows as The Tyra Banks Show and Glenn Beck as an expert on psychoanalysis. He even writes for Fox News’ blog devoted to health matters, where he tends to make claims that go against all evidence when it serves a particular political point, and runs a self-empowerment community based around his book Living the Truth. Though his credentials are fine, his psychiatric analyses of famous individuals or talk-show guests on the basis of thirty-second interviews or news headlines have not been recognized as methodologically sound by any psychiatrist with any integrity...

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