With the Anniversary of the NZ massacre being commemorated, findings are that hate speech online has been a major contributor to many of such crimes.
Should freedom of speech include the right to demonise or infer evil to mass populations of any group?
There are posts that will take a verse out of context attempting to impute violence to an entire religion who’s population numbers 1.7 billion adherents rather than attribute crimes specifically to those who committed them.
I believe to try and indicate or attribute to an entire religion the judgement of violence is but a prejudicial veiled attempt to demonise, discredit and incite hatred against Muslims or any group in general under the guise of ‘freedom of speech ‘.
I believe in view of massacres like the one in NZ that forums such as RF need to be far more vigilant at identifying those threads which have an agenda of discrediting and demonising a particular group as this could lead to hostility one day.
It doesn’t mean we can’t have our say but that freedom of speech needs to be used responsibly and we need to all be vigilant that we don’t inadvertently create hostility towards any group of people.
I see some threads where some groups are-being singled out with no real purpose except to discredit and demonise them not constructively share and or learn.
I myself believe there’s a line we should all never cross and that is to impute negative sentiments via generalisation methods towards any group of people small or large even DIR.
RF are an incredible forum with great moderators who are reasonable and just but in light of recent events I’m appealing for greater vigilance of threads seeking to demonise any group of innocent people.
Should freedom of speech include the right to demonise or infer evil to mass populations of any group?
There are posts that will take a verse out of context attempting to impute violence to an entire religion who’s population numbers 1.7 billion adherents rather than attribute crimes specifically to those who committed them.
I believe to try and indicate or attribute to an entire religion the judgement of violence is but a prejudicial veiled attempt to demonise, discredit and incite hatred against Muslims or any group in general under the guise of ‘freedom of speech ‘.
I believe in view of massacres like the one in NZ that forums such as RF need to be far more vigilant at identifying those threads which have an agenda of discrediting and demonising a particular group as this could lead to hostility one day.
It doesn’t mean we can’t have our say but that freedom of speech needs to be used responsibly and we need to all be vigilant that we don’t inadvertently create hostility towards any group of people.
I see some threads where some groups are-being singled out with no real purpose except to discredit and demonise them not constructively share and or learn.
I myself believe there’s a line we should all never cross and that is to impute negative sentiments via generalisation methods towards any group of people small or large even DIR.
RF are an incredible forum with great moderators who are reasonable and just but in light of recent events I’m appealing for greater vigilance of threads seeking to demonise any group of innocent people.