Antilocution describes a form of prejudice in which negative verbal remarks against a person, group, or community, are made but not addressed directly to the subject.
[2] Antilocution is the first point on Allport's Scale, which can be used to measure the degree of bias or prejudice in a society.
Allport's stages of prejudice are antilocution, avoidance, discrimination, physical attack, and extermination.
This can either bind the subject to the group and/or spread biased information that engenders discriminatory behaviors toward the object.
[3][4][5] "Antilocution" is used less often than "hate speech", which has a similar but more aggressive meaning and which places no regard on the fact that the out-group is unaware of the discrimination.