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The International Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Racial Discrimination: An Analysis Of Article 4’S Implementation On Hate Speech In The United States, Japan, And Germany, Chioma Chukwu-Smith
The International Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Racial Discrimination: An Analysis Of Article 4’S Implementation On Hate Speech In The United States, Japan, And Germany, Chioma Chukwu-Smith
Saint Louis University Law Journal
In 2017, white supremacists gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia to protest the removal of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s statue from a public park. The “protesters” chose to voice their concerns by carrying tiki torches and spewing racist chants. The encounter began with hateful speech and ended in bloodshed and death. This is one example of how the United States, along with several other democracies, has been confronted with the question of how far they should go in limiting extreme forms of hateful, discriminatory expression.
In various countries around the world, hate speech, at its worst, has resulted in political extremism …