Sunday, November 4, 2007
Hate speeches
I very much so agree with Dershowitz’s point about censorship and how we should take a hate speech and criticize it, but not censor it. There isn’t any difference with this view and with the view I took last week. I mean, the constitution says that we can’t censor them. Of course, with these hate speeches, as a society, it is easy to see their ignorance when you here this type of speech, but just because it is offensive does not give anyone the right to censor it.
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actually the constitution just says the government can't censor (although it used to all the time, in a big way: Alan Ginsberg, for example, was tried on obscenity grounds in San Franciso for his poetry); IPFW is a public university, but a private university could probably enforce speech codes.
But your point is the real one - criticism (of a higher tone) is the best approach if one wants to practice what they preach
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