Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 November 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021: Discussion
Dr. Amanda Haynes:
I fully support everything Dr. Schweppe says. As she said, it is incredibly ambiguous what political discourse and what academic discourse might entail. An awful lot of research, not just internationally but also in a domestic context, provides evidence that incitement occurs, particularly in the political sphere. Irish research demonstrates precisely what Mr. Collins was saying about anti-Traveller discourse in the political sphere in Ireland. Internationally, transphobic discourse often happens in the academic sphere, which can be used as a platform for transphobic discourse. I agree on both counts.
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