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Discover LudwigThe phrase "abusive discourse" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe communication that is harmful, insulting, or aggressive in nature.
Example: "The online forum was filled with abusive discourse, making it a hostile environment for new members."
Alternatives: "harmful communication" or "hostile dialogue".
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Rather than wait for the criminal justice system or bottom-line-focused tech giants to do the work of stamping out online abuse, the ethical onus rests on individual online users to collectively refuse to countenance, engage, or be entertained by abusive discourse — and to call it when we see it.
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While Lewis wrote, "I am determined that our Party will take the lead" in the "fight against an increasingly abusive public discourse", the actions he outlined all related to local Conservative associations dealing with bigoted individuals better.
CLOSE TO HOME In Chicago, public discourse over abusive themes in the media came to a head at Pitchfork Music Festival last summer, where L.A.-based hip-hop collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All performed in spite of some public outcry against their pro-violence lyrics which frequently reference rape.
Whether vein-popping road rage, mean-spirited online discourse, social media bullying, abusive personal relationships, predatory sexual behaviors, or, most tragically, murder, we're one pissed-off society.
He says that the level of political discourse in Parliament is shallow, abusive and personal.
But it's the logical conclusion of a cultural discourse which is consistently, violently abusive, shaming and demeaning to women.
Online harassment has been of particular concern to Twitter in recent months, as the level of online discourse across the web has become increasingly hate-filled and abusive.
Whereas human rights activism and humanitarian imperatives tend to emphasize the image of child soldiers as incapable victims of adults' abusive compulsion, this image does not fully correspond with prevailing pedagogical and jurisprudential discourses, nor does it represent all child soldiers' own perceptions of their role.
Moreover, humanitarian imperatives tend to emphasize the image that child soldiers are incapable victims of adults' abusive compulsion, stripped from legal agency and without any accountability, which does not fully correspond with prevailing pedagogical and jurisprudential discourse, nor represent the broad range of child soldiers' own perceptions of their role [ 9, 10, 13, 18– 20].
Before the court came to the racially abusive remark, it had to establish the context for it, an exercise that provided a startling insight into traditional soccer-field discourse.
Abusive bosses.
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