After the fall of the Berlin Wall a common political and economic consensus emerged, not only in the West but to a considerable extent around the world. Markets and democracy, working hand in hand, would transform the world into a community of modernized, peace-loving nations. In the process, ethnic hatred, extremist fundamentalism, and other “backward” aspects of underdevelopment would be swep...

An understanding of the mechanisms involving the programming of hatred into the minds of children has evolved. Indoctrination of children with storylines that are often fabrications is common. The animosities engendered by these stories are fueled by anger frequently associated with mental or physical maltreatment of children in authoritarian societies. Studies indicate that the dominant premot...

Oedipal revolt present in Homer produced the creative tensions in Greek, and especially Athenian culture. "Both tragedy and democracy are impossible when all authority is seen as good and blind obedience to authority is considered a high virtue." In the end, Plato joined Homer's condemnation of the revolt by proposing an ideal system that would produce fathers so virtuous that revolt would be u...

Online social platforms are beset with hateful speech content that expresses hatred for a person or group of people. Such content can frighten, intimidate, or silence platform users, and some of it can inspire other users to commit violence. Despite widespread recognition of the problems posed by such content, reliable solutions even for detecting hateful speech are lacking. In the present work...

The world around us has changed over recent years with the evolution of cyberspace and the development of the internet. Information in cyberspace is like an endless repository of information of various kinds, where there are no checks on who uploads the information and who downloads the same. Cyberspace thus practices equality in its most pristine form, though at the same time it also has the p...

Abstract The paper aims at providing an overview of hate crimes through interdisciplinary lens based not only on theories but also empirical research results. first deals with the central components crimes: prejudice and aggression. Not classical social-psychological these phenomena are discussed some newer ones. As do occur in a vacuum, next chapter social, political, cultural context factors ...