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Przegląd Europejski – European Studies Quarterly

Hate speech and identity politics. An intercultural communication perspective

2019, 2019, No. 3

Krzysztof Wasilewski

Politechnika Koszalińska

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0013.5848

Publication date

19.11.2019

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

Field

Social sciences

Discipline

international relations, economics and finance, communication and media studies, political science and public administration, management and quality studies, law, sociology

Language of publication

English, Polish

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Abstract

Hate speech has become a key element of contemporary political discourse. It has also changed the very structure of communication. With the access to public sphere provided by social media, hate speech engages people in connective action, which allows it to construct and deconstruct collective identity. By doing this, hate speech undermines the idea of multicultural society. In order to succeed, such a society needs to engage its members in inclusive intercultural dialogue while hate speech strongly excludes all dissident voices, deepening political polarisation. This article presents an extensive analysis of hate speech from the perspective of intercultural communication. Drawing from available research and literature, the author puts forward the thesis that hate speech is a communicative phenomenon that not only disrupts intercultural dialogue, but also leads to the disintegration of multicultural society.

Keywords:

hate speech,media,intercultural communication,identity politics,intercultural dialogue,political polarisation

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