Evidence specifically with gay people or in general?
If in general, the effects of hate speech are all around you and written in history books (how many people even recognize certain forms of hate speech against women, or hear someone referring to something as "gay" or "insane" or "lame" when they mean "icky" and don't realize how much it reinforces those conditions as being "beneath". Hell, look in the right places and you can even find proof of the effects of anti-certain brands of christianity (perpetrated by other christians). And the degree to which hate speech is normalized, accepted into the culture and seen as the way things are the more the violence increases. And the more the victim is seen as being guilty and deserving of the violence.
One of the things about hate speech is that if it were directed at an individual that person might have a good case for a libel suit.
And strange how these groups don't even recognize the right of certain stores to not say "holidays" instead of "christmas" without calling it an attack.
People need to learn to recognize the difference between freedom to have something and the freedom to strip that something away from everyone else by manipulating a claim to the freedom that one is stripping.
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If in general, the effects of hate speech are all around you and written in history books (how many people even recognize certain forms of hate speech against women, or hear someone referring to something as "gay" or "insane" or "lame" when they mean "icky" and don't realize how much it reinforces those conditions as being "beneath". Hell, look in the right places and you can even find proof of the effects of anti-certain brands of christianity (perpetrated by other christians). And the degree to which hate speech is normalized, accepted into the culture and seen as the way things are the more the violence increases. And the more the victim is seen as being guilty and deserving of the violence.
One of the things about hate speech is that if it were directed at an individual that person might have a good case for a libel suit.
And strange how these groups don't even recognize the right of certain stores to not say "holidays" instead of "christmas" without calling it an attack.
People need to learn to recognize the difference between freedom to have something and the freedom to strip that something away from everyone else by manipulating a claim to the freedom that one is stripping.