However, hate speech prevents its targets from speaking out. Those who
are hated cannot represent themselves due to fear caused by hate speech.
Sometimes, they refuse to even participate in discussions, or the discussion itself
becomes distorted due to hate even if they are given the opportunity to speak
out. Those who carry out hate speech tend to be overrepresented by taking
advantage of the authority of the majority, in which they are a part. In other
words, hate speech deprives the subject of actual opportunities to participate
in public discussions by silencing them, making them underrepresented, and
distorting public discussions by publicly stating hostile prejudices against other
members of society.
In this way, hate speech distorts and negates the structure of democracy. Hate
speech incapacitates the rights of the minority and deprives them of citizenship;
conversely, they may only be given the right to speech when they become a part
of the majority. As a result, the foundation of democracy that should be built on
diversity and multiplicity based on value relativism becomes damaged.
2) Hindering Social Integration
The ultimate evil of hate speech is that it creates a society with structured
discrimination and exclusion, leading to permanent divisions. Along the boundary
of hate, social integration becomes even more difficult in communities of various
sizes of communities. Hate that reinforces and structuralizes unjust discrimination
goes against integration and threatens the legal order that is fundamentally based
on social integration.
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