Hate speaks for itself
Apr. 4th, 2012 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sparkindarknessOn the internet we read a lot of homophobic hate speech but I think it is often not treated as severely as it should be. Of course, even spoken homophobic hate speech is rarely greeted with more than a tut - but written rarely gets even that. It's written off, ignored, passively accepted.
I also think people who aren't a victim of homophobic hate speech probably don't hear so much of it as they read it. I also think there are a lot of bigots willing to take to twitter or blogs and type things that sound far starker when spoken.
And, in some ways, text is more santitised than the spoken word, it lacks the human element, it lacks the impact, it lacks the immediacy - it brings home to you very much that this is a person saying this vile thing
And that's why this video I found on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters is so powerful. It puts spoken word to the typed vileness we see every single day.
Naturally it's triggering
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I also think people who aren't a victim of homophobic hate speech probably don't hear so much of it as they read it. I also think there are a lot of bigots willing to take to twitter or blogs and type things that sound far starker when spoken.
And, in some ways, text is more santitised than the spoken word, it lacks the human element, it lacks the impact, it lacks the immediacy - it brings home to you very much that this is a person saying this vile thing
And that's why this video I found on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters is so powerful. It puts spoken word to the typed vileness we see every single day.
Naturally it's triggering
Read More