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Author Waldron, Jeremy, author.

Title The Harm in Hate Speech / Jeremy Waldron
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (304 pages)
Series The Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures, 2009
Oliver Wendell Holmes lectures.
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
Summary For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Waldron rejects this view, and makes the case that hate speech should be regulated as part of a commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-278) and index
Notes English
SUBJECT Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd
Subject Hate speech -- United States
Freedom of speech -- Philosophy
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
LAW -- Comparative.
Freedom of speech -- Philosophy
Hate speech
Meinungsfreiheit
Hate crime
Yttrandefrihet -- Förenta staterna.
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011046700
ISBN 9780674065086
0674065085
0674069919
9780674069916