Must We Defend Nazis? Hate Speech, Pornography, and the New First Amendment

Name: Must We Defend Nazis? Hate Speech, Pornography, and the New First Amendment
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ISBN: 9780814719237

ISBN-10: 0814719236

ISBN-13: 9780814719237

Edition: 1999

Authors: Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic

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The authors criticize what they see as the use of archaic formulas such as the prohibition against content regulation, the maximum that the cure for bad speech is more speech, and the speech/art distinction.

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 11/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 238
Size: 9.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Jean Stefancic is Research Professor of Law at Seattle University and is the author of many articles and books on civil rights, law reform, social change, including No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America’s Social Agenda .



Preface


Acknowledgments



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



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



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 of Other Countries Shows That Adopting Hate-Speech Rules Would Not Cause the Skies to Fall; America Would Be Even More American



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?


Notes


Index