Author: Joe Iniodu

OPINION – Joe Iniodu The latest addition to our nation’s bourgeoning political lexicon is hate speech. Recently, it has gained albeit bemused currency with its origin giving reason for the amusement. Head or tail, hate speech has come to occupy a place in the polity including the nation’s statutes book. Hate, as a lexical item, implies intense hostility and aversion. Psychologists posit that it derives from anger or sense of injury opining that they easily morph into extreme dislike or disgust. Hate speech, therefore, as a by-product of a feeling of extreme enmity, is intended to insult, offend or disparage…