Speech Is Violence? Not if We Want a Liberal, Intellectual Society
insults are not threats, and there is something undeniably opportunistic about invoking ‘safety’ as a tactic to prevent others from speaking.
Andrew Doyle • Free Speech And Why It Matters
Frederick Douglass once said, “To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.” That’s why “censorship” isn’t really the right word for what’s happening here. People aren’t banning speakers from speaking; they can go speak elsewhere. They’re preventing their fellow students from heari
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Where nobody can agree on definitions, there can be no unanimity on where the limitations of free speech can be drawn. In such circumstances, the safest approach is to defend free speech for all, and that includes those whose