Counteracting Hate Speech as a Way of Preventing Genocidal Violence
Wibke K. Timmermann · Genocide Studies and Prevention · 2008
Hate speech regularly, if not inevitably, precedes and accompanies ethnic conflicts, and particularly genocidal violence. Without such incitement to hatred and the exacerbation of xenophobic, anti-Semitic, or racist tendencies, no genocide would be possible and persecutory campaigns would rarely meet with a sympathetic response in the general public.