The Importance of Authority in Hate Speech

In many of Austin's examples it makes a difference who is saying the words even in that example I just gave maybe it could only have been an order if the first man was in a position of authority relative to the second man. So what this tells us is that certain sorts of speech acts can do something when they're said by a person who is authoritative relative to the hearer and will not do the same thing if they're not. When De Stuomer which was one of the major antisemitic papers published their hate filled pictures and essays it mattered that it was from an influential paper that had the official backing of the government. That kind of speech was authoritative speech that ranked a particular