[SydPhil] Reminder: UNSW seminar, Tuesday 29 October: Sarah Sorial, "Hate speech and distorted communication: rethinking the limits of incitement"

[Joanne Faulkner]

All welcome, no RSVP necessary.

School of Humanities & Languages Seminar  - Philosophy Seminar


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The School of Humanities & Languages are proud to present a seminar in the field of Philosophy presented by Dr Sarah Sorial, University of Wollongong

"Hate speech and distorted communication: rethinking the limits of incitement"

Hate speech is commonly defined with reference to the legal category of incitement. Laws targeting incitement typically focus on how the speech is expressed rather than its actual content. This has a number of unintended consequences: first, law tends to capture overt or obvious forms of hate speech and not hate speech that takes the form of ‘reasoned’ argument, but which nevertheless, causes as much, if not more harm. Second, the focus on form rather than content leads to categorization errors. Hate speech taking the form of ‘reasoned argument’ is often legally characterized as either political or academic debate, and so is deemed both permissible and justified in societies where free speech principles exist.



In this paper, I argue that the danger in mischaracterizing an instance of hate speech by calling it academic or political debate is that it risks normalizing the views and sentiments that are expressed and accepting those views as an important part of our political and academic discourses. With reference to Habermas’ account of ‘distorted communication,’ I propose different criteria for defining and understanding hate speech and suggest that there might be good reasons for interpreting the concept of incitement more broadly, so as to include different kinds of hate speech.



Sarah Sorial is a senior lecturer in the Philosophy Program in the Faculty of Arts. She researches at the intersection of political philosophy and philosophy of law. She is the author of Sedition and the advocacy of violence: Free speech and counter-terrorism (Routledge, 2011), and had published on deliberative democracy, issues in rights theory, feminism and phenomenology.
Click here for more information.<https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/events/hate-speech-and-distorted-communication-rethinking-the-limits-of-incitement/>

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Date: 29 October, 2013
Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Location: Morven Brown 310 Morven Brown Building, UNSW Kensington
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Dr Joanne Faulkner
ARC DECRA Research Fellow
School of Humanities
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Room 338, Morven Brown Building
University of New South Wales
Kensington, NSW 2052
Australia

j.faulkner at unsw.edu.au
+61 2 9385 2287
https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/about-us/people/joanne-faulkner/

http://unsw.academia.edu/JoanneFaulkner

Co-Government/Institutional Representative, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy: http://www.ascp.org.au

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NTEU Office Tel: +61 2 9385 2479, email: nteu at unsw.edu.au
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