released 10/2/2020

D. C. Schindler — who delivered our Fall 2019 Areopagus Lecture — talks with Ken Myers about his recently published article “Social Media Is Hate Speech.” While “hate speech” is typically defined as public speech that expresses contempt or encourages violence towards a person or group, Schindler argues that much modern speech effectively expresses contempt for that which language (and reason) have been given to us: Truth. Since the the institutions of social media — the ecosystem in which much social interaction now occurs — are designed more to generate attention for the sake of profit or self-promotion, social media’s glib indifference to truth amounts to a deeper form of “hate speech.”

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