Today marks the birthday of Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange — a novel that shows how language shapes behaviour and power.
Through his invented teenage slang, Burgess demonstrated how violence can be normalised — even made attractive — through words. Beneath the style lies a deeper question: can society address violence without confronting the systems behind it?
Within the UNITY project, we approach hate speech in a similar way. Not only as individual behaviour, but as something rooted in culture, language and structures. If language can normalise harm, it can also resist it.
Responsibility lies not only in what we say, but in the environments where speech circulates.
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