hate speech

English

Alternative forms

• hate-speech

Etymology

From hate +‎ speech. Compare Old English hetesprǣċ (“hateful speech”).

Noun

hate speech (uncountable)

1. Speech that attacks or disparages a person or group of persons on the basis of origin, race, nationality, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.

   Coordinate term: hate crime

   • 2013 May 30, “Hate Speech on Facebook”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Facebook belatedly moved to further restrict hate speech that glorified violence against women after an organized social media campaign caused some companies like Nissan, the automaker, to withhold advertising from the site.

Translations

offensive speech

• Afrikaans: haatspraak
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 仇恨言論／仇恨言论 (chóuhèn yánlùn)

• Czech: nenávistný projev (cs) m
• Danish: hadefuld omtale, hate speech
• Estonian: vihakõne
• Faroese: hatursumrøða f
• Finnish: vihapuhe (fi)
• French: discours de haine m
• German: Hetze (de) f, Hassrede f
• Greek: λόγος μίσους m (lógos mísous)
• Hindi: अभद्र भाषा (abhadra bhāṣā)
• Hungarian: gyűlöletbeszéd (hu)
• Icelandic: hatursorðræða
• Indonesian: ujaran kebencian
• Japanese: ヘイトスピーチ (heitosupīchi), 憎悪表現 (zōohyōgen)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hets (no) m

• Polish: mowa nienawiści (pl) f (fashionable calque), szczucie (pl) n (na kogoś), nagonka f (na kogoś)
• Portuguese: discurso de ódio
• Romanian: discurs de instigare la ură n
• Serbo-Croatian: govor mržnje
• Spanish: discurso de odio m
• Swedish: hatpropaganda
• Thai: ประทุษวาจา (th) (bprà-tút-sà-waa-jaa)
• Turkish: nefret söylemi
• Vietnamese: ngôn từ thù địch, ngôn từ gây thù ghét
• Yiddish: האַסווערטער pl (hasverter)

Further reading

• hate speech on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “hate speech”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.