[Ads-l] Antedating of "Hate Speech" (Mass Noun)

[Shapiro, Fred]

hate speech (OED, b., 1981)

1968 Roy Wilkins in Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) 25 Feb. 2-A/2 (Newspapers.com)  (headline) Hate Speech Is Not Worth a Boy's Life.

1970 Tidewater (West Point, Va.) 7 May 11/3 (Newspapers.com)  Canadian bill seeks to curb hate speech.

1977 Chicago Daily News 20 Aug. 12/4 (GenealogyBank)  Please don't confuse "marching" with "speech" and riot-prooking hate speech with free speech.

Fred Shapiro

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