Debating Hate Crime
Language, Legislatures, and the Law in Canada
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Debating Hate Crime
Language, Legislatures, and the Law in Canada
Debating Hate Crime examines the language used by parliamentarians, senators, and committee witnesses to debate Canada’s hate laws. Drawing on discourse analysis, semiotics, and critical psychoanalysis, Allyson Lunny explores how the tropes, metaphors, and other linguistic signifiers used in these debates expose the particular concerns, trepidations, and anxieties of Canadian lawmakers and the expert witnesses called before their committees. Lunny reveals the meaning and social signification of the endorsement of, and resistance to, hate law. The result is a rich historical account of some of Canada’s most passionate public debates on victimization, rightful citizenship, social threat, and moral erosion.

Table of Contents
Introduction: The Political and Affective Language of Hate
1 Hate Propaganda and the Spectre of the Holocaust
2 Legislating Victims of Hate
3 Bill C-250: A Censoring of Religious Freedom or a Protection Against Hate?
4 The Trans “Bathroom Bill”
5 The Baby and the Bathwater: The Repeal of Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act
Conclusion
Notes; Bibliography; Index
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