Download or read book Destructive Messages written by Alexander Tsesis and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2002-08-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tsesis uses historical examples to illuminate the central role racist speech played in encouraging attitudes that led to human rights violations against German Jews, Native Americans, and African Americans, and also discusses the dangers posed by hate speech spread on the Internet today. He also offers an examination of the psychology of scapegoating."--BOOK JACKET.