Hate mail

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Hate mail (as electronic, postal, or otherwise) is a form of harassment, usually consisting of invective and potentially intimidating or threatening comments towards the recipient. Hate mail often contains exceptionally abusive, foul or otherwise hurtful language.

The recipient may receive disparaging remarks concerning the subject's ethnicity, sexuality, intelligence, political ideology, or sense of ethics. The text of hate mail often contains profanity, or it may simply contain a negative, disappropriating message. Hate mail is often sent anonymously.

Nowadays, many senders of hate mail use internet e-mail. Some webmasters post received hate mail publicly on their websites with the intention of humor.

1 Reasons for hate mail
2 See also
3 External links
- 3.1 Scholarly articles
- 3.2 News articles

[edit] Reasons for hate mail

The reasons why people receive hate mail can vary widely. These can include the recipient's involvement in controversial social or civil causes and expressed political viewpoints, for example.

Criminals have also received hate mail, both in and out of prison, particularly if it involves crimes against children.