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When people who are already prone to act in that way hear hate speech in public forums — and especially when it goes unchallenged or is treated as ‘entertainment’ and ‘joking,’ they unsurprisingly feel that much of the larger society condones not only hate speech—but hateful acts taken against the targets of the hate speech.
