How to Use hate speech in a Sentence

hate speech

noun
  • Many users have worried that could mean a rise in hate speech.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 24 July 2023
  • The trailer does not touch on West's hate speech.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • More stories šŸ—£ļø Is hate speech free speech?
    — Maria Leontaras, Nashville Tennessean, 19 Sep. 2025
  • It was ruled hate speech and, in effect, banned by a court more than a decade ago.
    — Gerald Imray, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Susan used hate speech against children.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But that does not mean ā€˜hate speech,ā€™ as such, can be prosecuted.
    — Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Laws against hate speech could be used to suppress speech that the government didnā€™t like.
    — Time, 29 Sep. 2025
  • And when the hate speech poured out from the stage, it wasnā€™t just heard by the thousands in attendance.
    — Lee Trink, HollywoodReporter, 23 Apr. 2025
  • This type of hate speech is putting millions of Americans in harm's way.
    — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Many students say hate speech and racial slurs regularly go unchecked at the school.
    — Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Your company paid me $16 million for a form of hate speech.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Twitter has also seen a spike in hate speech since Musk bought the platform last year.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 6 July 2023
  • Bondi has been criticized from both the left and the right for her comments about hate speech.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
  • My Ads, a watchdog group for ways in which the ad industry supports hate speech.
    — David Ingram, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Since the pandemic, anti-Asian hate speech also has been on the rise.
    — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2023
  • What is hate speech, and is it protected by the First Amendment?
    — Angele Latham, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Sep. 2025
  • What is hate speech, and is it protected by the First Amendment?
    — Cate Charron, IndyStar, 19 Sep. 2025
  • What Jimmy said was FREE speech, not hate speech.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2025
  • What Jimmy said was FREE speech, not hate speech.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Each game has a code of conduct or rules that prohibit offensive language or hate speech.
    — Khadijah Khogeer, NBC News, 24 July 2023
  • West has been under fire in recent months for controversial X rants filled with hate speech.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 30 Apr. 2025
  • And when hate speech is excused or explained away, Jewish lives are put in mortal danger.
    — Laurence Milstein, Sun Sentinel, 4 June 2025
  • Growing attacks in schools, linked to online hate speech, have added urgency to the issue.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Yes, classifying calls for the genocide of Jews as hate speech should have been a straight-forward task.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
  • This plan should include strategies for handling hate speech, trolling, and other forms of harassment.
    — Red Rodriguez, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
  • The five-member board ruled that the video, along with another anti-trans video, does not constitute hate speech.
    — Samantha Riedel, Them., 24 Apr. 2025
  • Hanukkah reminds us Jews will not sit silently on the sidelines while hate crimes and hate speech against us skyrocket.
    — TIME, 11 Dec. 2023
  • And Twitter is under scrutiny for a rise in hate speech and its treatment of workers.
    — Kate Conger, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • While some people may see certain platforms as a breeding ground for hate speech, others may see them as the last bastion of free speech.
    — Expert PanelĀ®, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Critics have argued such moves have increased the amount of hate speech on the platform, which Grok pulls from for its answers.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 15 July 2025

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