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Hate Speech and Caucasian Nationalism in Western Democracies: Flashing Light on the Invisible Ghost

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  • Emmanuel Ngwainmbi

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This article describes the sociology of hate speech, contending that hate speech is a by-product of racism that dominates our world when homo sapiens occupy the universe. It analyzes ideas of national space by some race thinkers and points to contemporary media as the foremost promoter of Caucasian nationalism worldwide. The article shows how social media data and IT platforms advance anti-other sentiments and a particular egocentric pro-nationalist agenda among Caucasian groups in the Global North, especially Germany and America. Convinced by Sigmund Freud's argument that human behavior is motivated by unconscious conflicts almost always aggressive. The principles of reverse psychology and group communication explain how the media frames persons with different racial, ethnic, sexual, gender, or ethnic configurations. Presenting hate speech as a threat to world peace and demonstrating that counter speech is a better way of blocking hate speech's dignitarian harm [1], the paper identifies global efforts to curb hate speech and shows how media firms and governments can control hate speech.

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  • Emmanuel Ngwainmbi, 2021. "Hate Speech and Caucasian Nationalism in Western Democracies: Flashing Light on the Invisible Ghost," European Journal of Development Studies, European Open Science, vol. 1(3), pages 33-42, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:epw:develo:v:1:y:2021:i:3:id:15039
    DOI: 10.24018/ejdevelop.2021.1.3.39
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