An investigation of hate speech: legal approaches current controversies and suggestions for
limiting its spread. Hate speech can happen anywhere--in Charlottesville Virginia where young
men in khakis shouted Jews will not replace us in Myanmar where the military used Facebook
to target the Muslim Rohingya in Capetown South Africa where a pastor called on ISIS to rid
South Africa of the homosexual curse. In person or online people wield language to attack
others for their race national origin religion gender gender identity sexual orientation
age disability or other aspects of identity. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge
series examines hate speech: what it is and is not its history and efforts to address it.
