ting others from being molested by that opinion. It is safe to assume that positive environments in the workplace will not only improve work efficiency, but it may even lead to a greater integration of ideas (Wood 3). New ideas are more readily accepted if they are introduced to a positive environment (3). Therefore, hate speech is detrimental to the work environment and must be controlled by national laws.Also, due to the intense emotions that are elicited by hate speech, counter speech is not effective. Hate speech manipulates false information in order to attack groups of people. However, it is apparent that while counter speech may be effective on the personal level, it is not effective on any higher levels. In the case of speech that is used to incite violence, there are few words that have the power to halt bullets, fists, or baseball bats.A third major point in the argument for government restrictions of hate speech is the fact that not all employers will react the same way to hate speech codes. If left entirely to the employers, hate speech codes will be useless. This is due to the fact that mostly white Christians have control of corporate America (Minority 1). When there is this kind of distinction between the different levels of society, one may conclude that those at the top may not be concerned about their own policies regarding hate speech. Therefore, it is impossible to rely on them to enforce any of those policies. For example, Texaco faced a multimillion-dollar lawsuit in 1996 for not enforcing its policies regarding minority advancement in employment. This is the final reason why the government must be called upon to restrict hate speech in the workplace.In order to refute the previous argument, one must observe that even after the civil rights movement and the fights for women’s equality there still lives much prejudice in the private industry. Such social stigmas do affect the quality of work that ...
