Deck 8: Economics of Hate

Question 1

What is hate?

Answer 1

Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary (2004) defines hate as, "intense hostility and aversion usually derived from fear, anger, or sense of injury."

Question 2

What are some initial responses of a person to hate?

Answer 2

Researchers Semir Zeki and John Paul Romaya (2008) found distinct activity in the brain associated with hate. Hate starts out as an internal mental and physical response to an outside stimulus, in such forms as thoughts and tightening of muscles.

Question 3

What are some actions that show escalation of hate beyond internal and physical responses to a person?

Answer 3

Hate can escalate into words (spoken or written, private or public, self-ascribed or anonymous) or depictions (hand signals, body language, graffiti, or pictures).

Question 4

What are some outward manifestations of hate?

Question 5

What is bias?

Question 6

What is discrimination?

Question 7

Why is it incorrect to analyze the treatment of two persons or groups using both discrimination and nepotism at the same time?

Question 8

What is harassment?

Question 9

What is a hate crime or a bias-motivated crime?

Question 10

What is hate speech?

Question 11

What is cyberbullying?

Question 12

What biases does the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation include when considering whether a crime is a hate (or bias-motivated) crime?

Question 13

What are the three types of federal and state laws related to hate crimes?

Question 14

How does the United States Civil Rights Act of 1968 (18 U.S.C. § 245(b)(2)) relate to hate?

Question 15

How does the United States Hate Crimes Statistics Act of 1990 (28 U.S.C. § 534) related to hate?

Question 16

How does the United States Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (28 U.S.C. § 994 note Sec. 280003) relate to hate?

Question 17

How does the United States Hate Crimes Act of 2009 relate to hate?

Question 18

What other United States federal laws relate to bias-motivated crimes?

Question 19

Are the United States federal laws related to the killing of a member of law enforcement as a hate crime?

Question 20

When are bullying and cyberbullying considered criminal acts in the United States?

Question 21

What does supranational mean?

Question 22

How is international law created?

Question 23

What is the role of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)?

Question 24

What is the role of the International Criminal Court (ICC)?

Question 25

What countries were related to the first two international tribunals?

Question 26

What are some of the controversies associated with hate?

Question 27

How is the concept of freedom of thought related to hate crimes?

Question 28

Which United States federal department is in charge of work related to hate crimes?

Question 29

What is taste discrimination?

Question 30

What is employer discrimination and how does it affect wages paid by employers?

Question 31

What is an isocost line?

Question 32

What is an isoquant line?

Question 33

How can isocost and isoquant lines be used to show discrimination between two groups of workers?

Question 34

What is employee (or coworker) discrimination and how does it affect the wages received by an employee?

Question 35

How can you use a graph of labor supply to show employee discrimination?

Question 36

What is customer discrimination and how does it affect the price paid by the customer?

Question 37

How can you use a graph of supply and demand to show customer discrimination?

Question 38

How does nepotism affect an employer?

Question 39

How does nepotism affect an employee?

Question 40

How does nepotism affect a customer?

Question 41

Who are the four main decision makers involved in the economics of hate?

Question 42

What are the choices of the perpetrators of hate-motivated actions?

Question 43

What are some of the possible costs to the perpetrator of a hate crime?

Question 44

What are some of the possible costs to the victim of a hate crime?

Question 45

What are some of the possible costs to bystanders and society of a hate crime?

Question 46

How is the media related to hate crimes?

Question 47

What are four reasons people commit hate crimes?

Question 48

How may the media benefit from a hate crime?

Question 49

How does hate affect the incentives needed to prevent a crime?

Question 50

When is it efficient to allow hate speech in public forums?

Question 51

How could media play a role in preventing hate crimes?

Question 52

Why is there a net benefit to using cyberbullying rather than bullying?

Question 53

How does bullying differ when it occurs between children and when occurs between adults?

Question 54

How much of an incentive would need to be put in place to overcome an employer bias, an employee bias, or a customer bias?