The harm in hate speech /

Every liberal democracy has laws or codes against hate speech except the United States. For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Against this absolutist view, Jeremy Waldron argues powerfully that hate speech should be regulated as pa...

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Main Author: Waldron, Jeremy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2012
Series:Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures ; 2009
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Table of Contents:
  • Approaching hate speech
  • Anthony Lewis's Freedom for the thought that we hate
  • Why call hate speech group libel?
  • The appearance of hate
  • Protecting dignity or protection from offense?
  • C. Edwin Baker and the autonomy argument
  • Ronald Dworkin and the legitimacy argument
  • Toleration and calumny