Question

Most everyone recognizes that Professor Williams is a great teacher and researcher and many will be sorry to see him retire at the end of this academic year. Brad, on the other hand, has told people "it's about time that old relic, that geezer, retires. He's WAY too old to still be in the classroom." This is an example of ________ Answers: 1) polarization. 2) hate speech. 3) sexist language. 4) static evaluation

Answer 1

Answer: Hate speech

Explanation: In simple words, it refers to any abusive or threatening remarks made by one person or a group of person to some other person or group of person. These remarks are made on the basis of gender, age or race etc.

In the given case, Brad is making hate remarks on his professor on the basis of his age.

Hence from the above we can conclude that the given case is an example of hate speech.