Combating Hate: A Framework for Direct Action

The United States has a hate problem. In recent years, hate speech has led not only to...
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Author: Billie Murray
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Combating Hate: A Framework for Direct Action by Murray, Billie

Combating Hate: A Framework for Direct Action

BD$261.67

Combating Hate: A Framework for Direct Action

BD$261.67
Author: Billie Murray
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The United States has a hate problem. In recent years, hate speech has led not only to deep division in our politics but also to violence, murder, and even insurrection. And yet established constitutional jurisprudence holds that all speech is protected as "content neutral" and that the proper democratic response to hateful expression is not regulation but "more speech." So how can ordinary citizens stand up to hate groups when the state will not?

In Combating Hate, Billie Murray proposes an answer to this question. As a participant in anti-racist and anti-fascist protests, including demonstrations against the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and the Westboro Baptist Church, Murray witnessed firsthand the limitations of the "more speech" approach as well as the combative tactics of anti-fascist activists. She argues that this latter group, commonly known as antifa, embodies a radically different strategy for combating hate, one that explodes the myth of content neutrality and reveals hate speech to be a tactic of fascist organizing with very real, highly anti-democratic consequences. Drawing on communication theory and this on-the-ground experience, Murray presents a new strategy, which she calls "allied tactics," rooted in the commitment to affirm, support, and even protect those who are the victims of hate speech.

Engaging and sophisticated, Combating Hate contends that there are concrete ways to fight hate speech from the front lines. Murray's urgent argument that we reconsider how to confront and fight this blight on American life is essential reading for the current era.



Author: Billie Murray
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: 05/03/2022
Pages: 198
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780271092799

About the Author
Murray, Billie: - Billie Murray is Associate Professor of Communication at Villanova University. Her scholarship has appeared in some of the top journals in the field, including Argumentation and Advocacy, Communication Theory, and Western Journal of Communication.

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