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Hate Speech, Political Correctness, and Cancel Culture: The Future of Free Expression book cover

1st Edition

Hate Speech, Political Correctness, and Cancel Culture The Future of Free Expression

Edited By Oscar Pérez de la Fuente, Enrique Armijo Copyright 2027
288 Pages
by Routledge

Hate Speech, Political Correctness, and Cancel Culture  critically examines the challenges posed by modern discourse in democratic societies. It explores the intersection of hate speech, political correctness, cancel culture, and disinformation, and offers a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective on their ethical, legal, and societal implications. Delving into the complexities of... Read more

1. Introduction: Is There an International Law of Free Speech?

Enrique Armijo

Part 1. Political Correctness and Cancel Culture

2. Political Correctness from The Perspective Of Autonomic Egalitarian Liberal Feminism

Evangelia Aikaterini Glantzi

3. Is Cancellation the Answer? Addressing Present and Past Injustice Without Adding Wrongs to Wrongs: Considerations On ‘Cancel Culture’ Through a Restorative Approach

Federico Reggio

4. Is There Such a Thing as Politically Correct Anti-Semitism? ‘Anti-Siomitism’ After October 7th

Rafael Rodríguez Prieto

Part 2. Hate speech

5. Echoes Of Exclusion: Hate Speech And The Refugee Crisis In Poland. The Case Of Ukrainian Refugees

Kinga Anna Gajda

6. The Freedom to Essentialise Others: Some Preliminary Remarks

Triantafyllos Gkouvas

7. What’s Wrong with Figleaves and Why That Matters?

Marek Uszyński

8. Hierarchy Of Victims. Poland's Hate Crime Expansion Rejected

Jędrzej Skrzypczak

9. Judicial Stereotyping and Misinformation Inside aOutside The Courtroom the Trial of Zak Kostopoulos

Nikoletta Pikramenou

Anestis Karastergiou

Part 3. On Free Speech Foundations In The Post-Truth Era

10. Bentham on Free Speech Generously Conceived

Filimon Peonidis

11. Platform Immunity and Free Speech: Section 230 as Civil Rights Statute

Enrique Armijo

12. Disinformation And Fake News. A Conceptual Approach

Oscar Pérez De La Fuente

13. Disinformation As Undue Influence On Campaigning And Election Review

Matthias Friehe

14. The Future of Freedom of Expression. an Overwiew

Oscar Pérez De La Fuente

 

 

Biography

Oscar Pérez de la Fuente is an Associate Professor (accredited as Full Professor) of Philosophy of Law and Political Philosophy in Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain. He authored several books and numerous scientific articles on cultural pluralism, free speech, and legal interpretation. Coordinator of the "Cultural pluralism and rights of minorities" Permanent Seminar. He is currently Executive Editor of the Research Committee 26 on human rights of IPSA, the International Political Science Association. Some of his recent publications are: (2023), "Online Misogyny and the Law: Are Human Rights Protected on the Net?", The Age of Human Rights Journal; Pérez de la Fuente, Oscar, Tsesis, Alexander, Skrzypczak, Jędrzej (eds.), Minorities, Free Speech and the Internet, Routledge, 2023 and Jedrzej Skrzypczak, Oscar Pérez de la Fuente (eds.) Lessons for Implementing Human Rights from COVID-19. How the Pandemic Has Changed the World, Routledge, 2025 and O. Pérez de la Fuente, J. Skrzypczak (eds.), Bridging the Digital Divide. Perspectives on Inequality and Discrimination in the Digital Age (Palgrave, 2025).

Enrique Armijo is a Professor of Law, Elon University School of Law; Faculty Affiliate, Yale Law School Information Society Project and the UNC-Chapel Hill Centre for Information, Technology, and Public Life. Research Fellow in the Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics at the George Washington University.

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