War on Hate

How to Stop Genocide, Fight Terrorism, and Defend Freedom

Henry Kopel

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781978785144
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Civil Rights in Law
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The UN outlawed genocide in 1948, and the United States launched a war on terror in 2001; yet still today, neither genocide nor terrorism shows any sign of abating. This book explains why those efforts have fallen short and identifies policies that can prevent such carnage. The key is getting the causation analysis right. Conventional wisdom emphasizes ancient hatreds, poverty, and the impact of Western colonialism as drivers of mass violence. But far more important is the inciting power of mass, ideological hate propaganda: this is what activates the drive to commit mass atrocities and creates the multitude of perpetrators needed to conduct a genocide or sustain a terror campaign. A secondary causal factor is illiberal, dualistic political culture: this is the breeding ground for the extremist, "us-vs-them" ideologies that always precipitate episodes of mass hate incitement. A two-tiered policy response naturally follows from this analysis: in the short term, several targeted interventions to curtail outbreaks of such incitement; and in the long term, support for indigenous agents of liberalization in venues most at risk for ideologically-driven violence.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Incitement, Genocide, and Terrorism
• Part I: Hate Incitement’s Progeny
• Chapter 1: Genocide
• Chapter 2: Genocide Incitement: Causation Evidence
• Chapter 3: Terrorism
• Chapter 4: Terrorism Causation: Dualistic Ideologies
• Chapter 5: Terror Incitement: Dissemination of the Ideology
• Chapter 6: Other Causal Factors
• Part II: Hate Incitement’s Dominion
• Chapter 7: The Contemporary Deluge of Hate Incitement
• Chapter 8: Early History: The Missing Reformation
• Chapter 9: Twentieth Century, Part I: The Totalitarian–Islamist Fusion
• Chapter 10: Twentieth Century, Part II: Toward the Global Jihad
• Part III: Hate Incitement’s Adversary
• Chapter 11: Willful Blindness: The Silence of the Opinion Leaders
• Chapter 12: Willful Blindness: Sources of the Silence
• Chapter 13: The “Democratic Peace” and the Importance of Liberalization
• Chapter 14: Defending Freedom against Totalitarian Hatred
• Appendix: Proposed Federal Anti-Incitement Statute
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author