Milburn, J. orcid.org/0000-0003-0638-8555 and Cochrane, A. (2021) Should we protect animals from hate speech? Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 41 (4). pp. 1149-1172. ISSN 0143-6503
Abstract
Laws against hate speech protect members of certain human groups. However, they do not offer protection to nonhuman animals. Using racist hate speech as our primary example, we explore the discrepancy between the legal response to hate speech targeting human groups and what might be called anti-animal or speciesist hate speech. We explore two sets of possible defences of this legal discrepancy drawn from the philosophical literature on hate speech—non-consequentialist and harm-based—and find both wanting. We thus conclude that, absent a compelling alternative argument, there is no in-principle reason to support the censure of racist hate speech but not the censure of speciesist hate speech.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Hate speech; hate crime; free speech; animal rights; animal ethics; animal law |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number British Academy PF19\100101 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2021 11:27 |
Last Modified: | 06 Dec 2021 10:12 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/ojls/gqab013 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:172770 |