Dignity, Harm, and Hate Speech
Dignity, Harm, and Hate Speech
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DOI：
10.1007/s10982-012-9164-z
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发表时间：
2013-11-01
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0.8
通讯作者：
Simpson, Robert Mark
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作者：
Simpson, Robert Mark
本文探讨了两个最近的贡献，仇恨言论文学-史蒂芬海曼和杰里米沃尔德龙-这寻求一个理由的法律的限制仇恨言论的方式，仇恨言论侵犯对人的尊严。这些分析超越了仇恨言论的直接目标所遭受的第一级伤害和不利处境，并考虑了仇恨言论维持复杂社会结构的前景，这些结构的大规模运作降低了目标群体成员的社会地位。在海曼和沃尔德龙的叙述中，我们发现了对以身份为基础的社会等级制度的本质以及在这种等级制度的运作下对从属者造成的伤害的似是而非的见解。然而，我认为，这两种分析是不成功的限制仇恨言论的理由，因为他们最终没有提供理由认为，仇恨言论是负责创建或维持基于身份的社会等级。
This paper examines two recent contributions to the hate speech literature - by Steven Heyman and Jeremy Waldron - which seek a justification for the legal restriction of hate speech in an account of the way that hate speech infringes against people's dignity. These analyses look beyond the first-order hurts and disadvantages suffered by the immediate targets of hate speech, and consider the prospect of hate speech sustaining complex social structures whose wide-scale operations lower the social status of members of targeted groups. In Heyman's and Waldron's accounts we find plausible insights into the nature of identity-based social hierarchies, and the harms that redound to subordinated people under the operations of such hierarchies. I argue, however, that both analyses are unsuccessful as justifications for the restriction of hate speech, because they do not ultimately provide reason to think that hate speech is responsible for creating or sustaining identity-based social hierarchies.