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Richard Delgado; Jean Stefancic; Mazal Holocaust Collection. |
ISBN: | 0814718582 9780814718582 0814719236 9780814719237 |
OCLC Number: | 35172518 |
Description: | xii, 224 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The opening salvo : naming the harm. Words that wound : how racist hate speech harms the victim. Law's earliest responses -- Pornography and harm to women : how even social scientists have sometimes failed to see the need for relief -- The assault on the citadel : legal realism shakes up orthodoxy. First Amendment formalism is giving way to First Amendment legal realism -- Campus anti-racism rules : constitutional narratives in collision, or, why there are always two ways of looking at a speech controversy -- Images of the outsider : why the First Amendment marketplace cannot remedy systemic social ills. Social science and narrative theory are questioning faith in the freemarket of ideas -- Retreat to policy analysis : "even if what the crits say is so ..." Paternalistic arguments against hate-speech rules : pressure valves and bloodied chickens. The liberals' response to the crumbling of certainty -- The toughlove school : neoconservative arguments against hate- speech regulation. ("I just let it roll off my back") -- "But America wouldn't be America anymore" : the experience ofother countries shows that adopting hate-speech rules would not cause the skies to fall; America would be even more american -- "From where I sit" -- The special problems of judges and progressive lawyers. Hateful speech, loving communities : why judges are sometimes slower than others at seeing the need for reform -- "The speech we hate" : the romantic appeal of First Amendment absolutism. Does defending Nazis really strengthen the system of free speech? |
Responsibility: | Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. |
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Abstract:
Focusing on the issues of hate-speech and pornography, this volume examines the efforts of reformers to oblige society and law to take account of such harms. It contends that the values of free expression and equal dignity stand in reciprocal relation.
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