Hate Speech Research Paper

“Hate speech has no redeeming value, so we should never pretend it occupies a rightful spot in the marketplace of ideas or has anything to do with ‘rational debate’ ... Governments have a duty to protect citizens and reduce discrimination and violence...” (Arthur 29). When hate speech is constantly used, it comes to a point where it is Kafkaesque. It’s not the absurdity of hate speech alone, but the irony of the victims’ circular reasoning in reaction to it, and how they consistently allow it to occur. Instead of pushing for the rights to protect themselves from the downpour of rude remarks, the victims of hate speech simply ignore it or acknowledge that it is a problem that cannot be fixed, which it can. Through these dilemmas prevail that