Francis and his friends have social media profiles that don't identify them personally, but they follow each other's accounts. A new student from a different country recently joined their grade. One of Francis's friends posted a photo of a group of monkeys eating bananas and wrote: "It's gross how the foreign students always bring smelly lunches to school. They're like animals and should be put in cages." Is this an example of hate speech? a. Yes. The comment was demeaning toward an entire group of people.

b. No. It was a mean comment but not serious enough to be considered hate speech.

c. No. It was only one comment that was meant to be funny.

a

Explanation:

hate speech is speech that is hateful towards a group of people, not just one particular person. in this case, francis's friend was targeting foreign children.

if the caption stopped at the smelly lunches, it'd just be a mean comment, but saying that all foreigners should be put in cages is hate speech.

true

explanation:

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)