The Answer to Hate Is Free Speech, Not Censorship
We live in an era in which offensive speech is on the rise. The emergence of the alt-right alone has fueled a marked increase in racist and anti-Semitic speech. Given its potential for harm, should such speech be banned or at least punished?
In her book Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship, Nadine Strossen aims to dispel the many misunderstandings that have clouded the perpetual debates about hate speech vs. free speech. At an event marking the book’s launch, Strossen was joined, and challenged, by Richard Ashby Wilson, a legal scholar currently researching incitement and hate speech in the United States since 2016.
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