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HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship, Strossen dispels the many misunderstandings that have clouded the perpetual debates about "hate speech vs. free speech," and shows that the U.S. First Amendment approach effectively promotes all pertinent concerns: free speech, democracy, equality and societal harmony
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Editor's Note
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Preface to the Paperback
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Overview
- Chapter 2: "Hate Speech" Laws Violate Fundamental Free Speech and Equality Principles
- Chapter 3: When "Hate Speech" Is Protected and When It Is Punishable
- Chapter 4: Because of Their Intractable Vagueness and Overbreadth, "Hate Speech" Laws Undermine Free Speech and Equality
- Chapter 5: Is It Possible to Draft a "Hate Speech" Law That Is Not Unduly Vague or Overbroad?
- Chapter 6: Does Constitutionally Protected "Hate Speech" Actually Cause the Feared Harms?
- Chapter 7: "Hate Speech" Laws are at Best Ineffective and at Worst Counterproductive
- Chapter 8: Non-Censorial Methods Effectively Curb the Potential Harms of Constitutionally Protected "Hate Speech"
- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Looking Back--and Forward
- Index
About the author
Nadine Strossen is John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law at New York Law School and the first woman national President of the American Civil Liberties Union, where she served from 1991 through 2008. A frequent speaker on constitutional and civil liberties issues, her media appearances include 60 Minutes, CBS Sunday Morning, Today, Good Morning America, The Daily Show, and other news programs on CNN, C-SPAN, Fox, Al-Jazeera, and in Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Her op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, and USA Today, among others.
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In HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship, Strossen dispels the many misunderstandings that have clouded the perpetual debates about "hate speech vs. free speech," and shows that the U.S. First Amendment approach effectively promotes all pertinent concerns: free speech, democracy, equality and societal harmony
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As Nadine Strossen writes eloquently in her new book, HATE, a democracy succeeds only when the rights, thoughts, and aspirations of all its citizens are respected and given voice, and the citizenry believes that this is true, regardless of viewpoint." - Maryanne Wolf, John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University and author of Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital Culture
