Hate speeches, an alarm for democratic life", a book about these speeches in Argentina, was presented this Thursday and it was warned that this phenomenon affects certain social groups due to their ethnic and gender condition, "with women being the most they receive it with 70%." From the Futuro Anfibio collection by Unsam Edita, this book offers interpretations of the first sociological work on hate speech in our country, emphasizing the problems of the social and political present. Edited by Ezequiel Ipar, Micaela Cuesta and Lucía Wegelin, it brings together more than twenty articles by various specialists on the subject who, for the most part, are part of the Laboratory for Studies on Democracy and Authoritarianism (LEDA), a space for theoretical discussion and research. . "The book compiles texts that appeared in the magazine Anfibia and other unpublished articles, the result of reflections and interpretation of empirical materials produced over ten years of research," Micaela Cuesta, one of the book's editors, told Télam. The specialist, doctor in Social Sciences and author of several chapters of the book, warned that "the growing circulation and legitimation of hate speech in the public sphere affects the freedom of expression of those who are the object of these attacks and harassment, such as groups of gender, dissidence, class, ethnicity, religion, among others.