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Sep 23, 2026
Samantha BarbasGUEST
So the short answer is there are no hate speech laws in the United States.
Samantha BarbasGUEST
And that makes the U.S. a true exception, a true outlier in the world.
Samantha BarbasGUEST
And so my book was trying to get to the question, why did the U.S. take this unique path? How do we explain that historically? Where and when and why did we diverge from the path that was taken by most other countries? So that's what the book is about.
Leigh RawlsHOST
Yes, because certainly we experience violence, we experience prejudice, but yes, we have this different legal structure surrounding it.
Leigh RawlsHOST
And you kick off the book talking about Birth of a Nation.
Leigh RawlsHOST
So I figured it makes sense for us to start there too.
Leigh RawlsHOST
So Birth of a Nation, can you please share a little bit more about that silent movie and the controversy surrounding it?
Samantha BarbasGUEST
Yeah, so as I write in the first part of the book, the United States really began debating the question of whether hate speech should be regulated in the early 20th century.
Anthony SteinHOST
This is probably-- This might be the most recent one.
Anthony SteinHOST
It's on their website, as you can see, the UN website, under hate speech, the UN Strategy and Plan of Action, where they say, quote, "In response to the alarming trend of rising hate speech around the world, Secretary-General António Guterres launched the UN Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech on the eighteenth of June, 2019.
Anthony SteinHOST
Seeking to enhance the UN's response to the global phenomenon of hate speech, this strategy is the outcome of close collaboration between 16 entities under the UN Working Group on Hate Speech and is coordinated by the UN Special Advisor on the Prevention of..." The, uh, that's-- The G word is one they don't like you using on these platforms, so it's a large-scale removal of people, we'll call it, sending them to the hereafter.
Anthony SteinHOST
"The strategy makes a firm commitment to set-- step up coordinated action to tackle hate speech both at global and national levels." And then they have the Secretary-General saying it does not-- "Addressing the issue does not mean limiting or prohibiting freedom of speech.
Anthony SteinHOST
It means keeping hate speech from escalating into more-- some-something more dangerous, particularly incitement to discrimination, hostility, and violence, which is prohibited under international law." And how could you be against that, right? Stopping the large-scale removal of human beings from this mortal coil, trying to make an entire group of people, entire ethnic group of people or religious group of people, uh, past tense.
Anthony SteinHOST
How could you, how could you be against that? No, no person, no, no person other than e- truly evil people are against that.
Anthony SteinHOST
But that is, of course, the mechanism for trying to control speech on the internet.
Anthony SteinHOST
Not being a member is probably a good thing.
David KnightHOST
But this is the way Robert Kraft... is using his tax-subsidized stadium.
speaker_19NARRATOR
Inside the Patriot Stadium, a command center of stats tracking hate speech online.
speaker_19NARRATOR
It shows where it's coming from, the time of day, and how it's trending, especially among younger people.
speaker_20SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We saw that not only is the 1970s growing across the country, it's disproportionately growing on college campuses and in high schools.
David KnightHOST
But this is the way Robert Kraft is using his tax-subsidized stadium.
speaker_14NARRATOR
Inside the Patriot Stadium, a command center of stats tracking hate speech online.
speaker_14NARRATOR
It shows where it's coming from, the time of day, and how it's trending, especially among younger people.
Robert KraftSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We saw that not only is the 1970s growing across the country, it's disproportionately growing on college campuses and in high schools.
LionelHOST
But under this new system, let's say an AGI system says, oh, no, no, no. We've identified this through what you've taught us.
LionelHOST
We've learned that this is hate speech that Ed Sheeran is an anti-Semite or not an anti-Semite or Macklemore is an anti-Semite or not a, or a homophobe or Islamophobe or whatever it is.
LionelHOST
So what does it do? It kills him.
LionelHOST
You think what? It does it.
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LionelHOST
Hi, this
BrianAUDIENCE
is a friend in Rockland.
BrianAUDIENCE
Given the fact that it's unconstitutional to ban burning of the U.S. flag, I'm saying that if you burn a pride flag, that's somehow hate speech and you don't want to do it.
LionelHOST
Who says there's a law that says that?
speaker_8CORRESPONDENT
Other former French colonies in North Africa, such as Morocco and Tunisia, have also expressed interest in shifting from French to English as a second language.
speaker_8CORRESPONDENT
The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has called upon governments, technology companies, civil society groups, academia, faith groups, and the media to join hands to stamp out hate speech and its poisonous message, which is spreading fast and striking deep.
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Mr. Guterres was speaking on Thursday in New York at the opening of the Global Conference on Promoting Interreligious and Cultural Dialogue.
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He warned that hate speech incites violence, instigates conflict, and contributes to the perpetration of atrocity crimes such as genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing.
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The main channels of hate speech today are social media on the Internet and the mainstream media operated by extremists.
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Mr. Guterres stressed the need to address the root causes, drivers, and consequences of hate speech by strengthening inclusive dialogue grounded in respect and equity among nations, cultures, and religions.
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Protests erupted in a minor city in Niger state in Nigeria on Friday after 37 people believed to be illegal miners died in the custody of a security agency known as Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps.
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According to eyewitnesses, police fired tear gas as dozens of demonstrators, including miners and their relatives, gathered in the city armed with sticks and machetes.
Margery EaganHOST
I mean, maybe he could say it's a violation of his order, but I think what happens when court orders come down lots of times in recent months, they're just kind of ignored.
Margery EaganHOST
But the reason I bring in the Kennedy Center is because Kraft is tight with Donald Trump, and he's talking about hate speech.
Margery EaganHOST
And Donald Trump, of course, as we know, talks about immigrants as vermin and – poisoning the blood of our country and eating cats and dogs.
Margery EaganHOST
I mean, Trump is the king of hate speech, so you can't say you're against hate speech and cozy up to the guy that is the biggest hate speecher probably in the history of the American presidency.
Margery EaganHOST
By the way, we
Jim BraudeHOST
invited Dr. Bloom.
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Chuck ToddGUEST
In theory, because of the government's role in helping to build the stadium and all of that, you know how much.
Chuck ToddGUEST
First Amendment rights does he have on this? Whose First Amendment right matters more here? The person who controls the facility or the person that is using the facility?
Miranda MelcherHOST
Hello and welcome to another episode on the New Books Network.
Miranda MelcherHOST
I'm one of your hosts, Dr. Miranda Melcher, and I'm very pleased today to be speaking with Dr. Samantha Barbus about a book just out in 2026 from the University of California Press titled Heat Speech, the Legal and Cultural History of an American Dilemma, which is a really interesting book that helps us understand...
Miranda MelcherHOST
A somewhat perhaps strange position that the United States is in today, where if you take a sort of poll of popular opinion, there's often quite a lot of people saying, yeah, there should be some sort of hate speech law.
Miranda MelcherHOST
And yet there isn't one.
Miranda MelcherHOST
Hello and welcome to another episode on the New Books Network.
Miranda MelcherHOST
I'm one of your hosts, Dr. Miranda Melcher, and I'm very pleased today to be speaking with Dr. Samantha Barbus about a book just out in 2026 from the University of California Press titled Heat Speech, the Legal and Cultural History of an American Dilemma, which is a really interesting book that helps us understand A somewhat perhaps strange position that the United States is in today, where if you take a sort of poll of popular opinion, there's often quite a lot of people saying, yeah, there should be some sort of hate speech law.
Miranda MelcherHOST
And yet there isn't one.
Miranda MelcherHOST
But looking at other countries that the U.S. often has a lot in common with legally, that other countries do have hate speech laws.
Ricky ColeHOST
Get the richer doing it.
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of stats tracking hate speech online.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It shows where it's coming from, the time of day, and how it's trending, especially among younger people.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We saw that not only is hate and anti-Semitism growing across the country, it's disproportionately growing in college campuses and at high schools.
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