Furthermore, such hostile behavior may lead to the incitement of specific actions
such as making these groups leave or disappear.
Negative ideas and prejudices towards target groups of hate speech may
be used to consider target group as different by separating them from others.
In other words, as the target group is considered to have harmful effects on
society, the country, and the majority of the people, it is claimed that isolating or
expelling them from society is justified. Within the process, those who express
the negative ideas and prejudices may claim that they are more discriminated
than the target group, and that most of the people are in pain due to the target
group. In some cases, people become numb to discrimination or violence towards
the target group. The target group may be blamed for economic recessions,
wars, unfortunate accidents and events, epidemics, or crimes and become
scapegoats. This is because the target group is generally considered to be inferior
or dangerous, and such treatment may not be considered a violation of human
rights, or the violation of human rights may be justified.
In addition, negative ideas and prejudices may be justified with plausible
ideology and theories, and may be spread through fake news. For example,
this fake news may appear to be academic opinions, scientific evidence, factual
information, and academic and political discussions. Some data may seem
objective, such as statistics, pictures, or neutral expressions. However, the data
may use racism, sexism, xenophobia, or homophobia to cast the target group as
inferior or abnormal. In addition, evidence that may seem objective may have
eliminated, added, changed, or cleverly used unverified data or overly exaggerate
biased information. Academic literature or articles from the media may also be
written based on such distorted data.
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