Hate Speech : A Call To Destruction

The creation of the word ‘love’ also lead to the birth of word ‘hate’ which conquered the world, and hatred became immortal in the society it conspired into ‘Hate Speech’ as a bane to the world at large. Words that attack a person or group on the basis of protected attributes as race, religion, ethnic origin, national origin, sex disability, sexual orientation or gender identity routes hate speech. Like rusting of iron human is his own destroyer, per se when offered with Freedom of speech and expression by the Constitution, it was molded by humans to curse the boon and use it as hate speech for molesting the good into bad.

Speech that expresses or incites hatred towards people on the basis of their identity is what to be put into words as Hate speech. But under the lens of diverse India where religion serves as basic need on the same level has proved the principle of putting faith in hate. When one tries to destroy or undermine religious institutions then the entire fabric of the society is quickly subverted or brought to ruin. The tremendous effect it causes might be greatest but the process is to save the simplest one. For that escalation to happen it all needs. A powerful speaker with a high degree of influence over the audience must have grievances and fears that the speaker can cultivate and the speech which acts as ‘weapon’ is clearly understood as a call to violence. Few lines or few words are enough to cultivate the feeling of hatred over vast number of heads. Its true that a single flame can light up the world and at the same time can destroy the whole world. The true purpose of religion is to control oneself, and not to criticize others, but under the present era religion has been a superpower granted to people use it as their weapon of words to initiate wars and discomfort among the people who blindly follow the words, these words are not mere words but a blanket of hate speech covering up the nation and causing conflicts around the globe.

“Putting Faith in Hate”:

Religion is the greatest cause of hate crime ever perpetrated by one man upon another by use of hate speech, its heinous act of disagreeing with a liberal. It can be far too facile for speakers to create speech that turns one group against another, if one turns the pages of the history books he might witness events where religion was the main cause of destruction among two communities caused by rulers at power and with their only musket which were few said words but more ruinous than nuclear weapons. The real reason to form Constitution was to safeguard the citizens of India when religion was under threat then there were protection of rights for a person-way of belief and professing their religion but to repudiate this grant and to justify one’s religion others beliefs were under a question mark also to use homo against homo sovereign’s used their words to cast an evil spell on their subjects and created a scene of conflict among people by words of hatred as hate speech. “The devil made me do this” is the mantra of many offenders in this era. These chanters of religion acquit themselves from the burden of guilt by excusing that these words came out as a shield for our religion and when it backfires they blame their devil actions to their religion for escaping themselves.

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“ Politics is not a religion ” it has always been a backbone of all the nations being present time or historic era if we discuss about politics as tactics against any particular community or group the policy of Divide and Rule where one religion fought another, where one brother was against each other and all the causes behind this tremendous blood-shed were poisonous words which formed hate speech and turned the history pages into red color, color of blood by words which made the nation bleed. Where one group is against another, when one person choose to head a different way in his life and society can digest that fact they represent their views but here the thing to notify is that the path used to give views about another are words and these words leave a deep mark ones soul as they are resultant of hate speech, here politics is used as a platform to portray how one thinks and those thoughts were imposed upon others by way of speech, the use of Freedom of speech and Expressions with restrictions are neglected and Hate Speech covered the main adaptation of Freedom and turned it into a negative perspective. A person under politics claims himself as a protector of culture, society with many other security issues as the duties they claim. The fact that brings real concerns is when ones brings his own discomfort from one person, society, culture, group of peoples to mandate their personal grievances by preaching what they learn by heading a group of people through their words these words are figure of speech under hatred and violence, hereby these words better fit the definition of hate speech. The issues where one should think and react turns out as a catalyst to increase the temper of chaos due to words filled in his mind which makes him act without using his own conscience as he is blindfolded by hatred and poisoned by hate speech by person who does so, words which promote violence against or has primary purpose of inciting hatred against individuals or groups based on certain attributes, gender, age, veteran status, sexual orientation/gender identity. If one person thinks something is taboo for the society that is supposed to be his personal belief but when he inculcates that into words and spreads that all over the community with malafide intention to create disharmony among the people is to be denoted as hate speech. For these grabby politicians, these games are bigger than their subjects and Nation. The boneless tongue of the human becomes clueless and speaks the words of other without being in control of their conscience and helps to achieve the planned system of sovereigns and this is how game is played and won on the piles of the lost humanity. There is a deep and dangerous link between hate speech and violence and politics works as icing on the cake, there is a need to differentiate between Freedom of speech and Hate Speech, there must be a balance between fighting hate speech on the one hand, and safeguarding freedom on the other. Politics is a religion and Hate speech is like its ingredient. This ingredient is as essential as salt where its presence is not witnessed by the naked eyes but it absence makes all the difference. The very tragedic luscious recipe of disaster is formed when the components: religion and politics are mixed up actual religion i.e religion of Humanity is slowly being lost in the fast-growing society. Our lack of humanity is bleeding us dead by a million cuts every day and worse is yet to come if humans stop preaching the religion of humanity and only indulge themselves in the religion of hate and oppose in no time there will be an end of humanity and more of hate. No person is born hating other but is made to do so under certain circumstances where he is acting as a puppet of another under influence of false words. Hate speech acts as wheels to crimes where crime rate recorded under Hate speech has been more than thought for hate speech acts as cannibalizing in regard of Freedom of speech. When a person forgets about a thin line between Freedom of Speech and crosses that he enters into the phase of Hate Speech as here he speaks without restrictions, defame a person or groups for his/her personal motives and initiates feeling of hatred between two groups. It is essential to understand when a person is crossing the line as when it will be understood by him there will be a downfall in use of Hate speech, knowledge of rights with restrictions is the need of the dynamic nation. While talking about advancement the basic structure of advancement is social media platforms and when two atoms collide together they create a new molecule with a close bond likewise two dissimilar propagandas which had to be kept in watertight compartments are being collided by hands of means and hatred to form a new religion of hatred which is reacted by the ion of Hate speech through social media. And when the whole world was chasing for advancement we were running behind religion to protect ours and damage others. Google came to existence to quench our thirst of queries; the people managed to find the ways where they can prove how their religion is greater than others and this incomplete knowledge works as a spine to their foolishness but unbridled their tongue that further enhances the fire of hate speech and harsh words. The main objection is that the high diplomatic class and a certain section of media wants to highlight the [religious] angle in order to malign the image of them and chaos spread by them for their own motives.

Like every curse has its own blessing likewise every problem has a solution to it and to tackle this issue of Hate speech we need some ways to track it down the very first method that can combat hate speech is education. When it comes to bullying, cyberbullying, harassment and hate crimes the more people are educated on these issues the more we can prevent them in the future. The other way we can fight hate speech is by speaking up about equality and diversity some refer to this as counter speech. The more we can undermine hate speech with loving words, logical arguments and truth-telling, the more that hate speech will begin to lose its power.

There is no cure for hate speech to remove it from the roots but there is a way to stand up against it.

                               Religion is regarded by the common people as true,

                                 by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

This Article is Written by Shristi Jain & Prachi Arya (1st Runner-up of Justice Shah Mohammad Sulaiman National Level Essay Writing Competition 2019)

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