Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Final Blog "Is Hate Speech in the Media Directly Affecting Our Culture?""



Hate: to feel intense or passionate dislike for something or someone. 


Ok so we know what hate is, we also know what it feels like to passionately dislike something or someone. Now looking deeper into hate in America can "Hate Speech" in the media directly affect out culture? In the book Taking Sides, by Alexander Hanson this question is addressed. Hate speech is "meant to convey the deliberate bias toward and discrimination against persons that could be incited because of the form of hate speech" (256). Hanson gathered two different opinions Yes and No. The Yes argument written by scholar Henry Giroux addresses the question to how our society has become so mean spirited he also tries to explain why.  


The No argument gathers Georgie Ann Weatherby and Brian Scoggins research of web pages that have a hate message hidden beneath the general context. Hanson compares both of these views and both have valid points, however there is not enough information to make a general consumption that Hate speech in the media affects our entire culture. 


However I believe hate speech to have some impact on our culture, for example the rap or more ghetto cultures do get a major influence from singers and artists trying to show who is the top man or women by evil acts such as beating on a person. Hate speech is also derived from this. Hate speech in the media does effect our culture but by how much we will never know. 

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