Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most intellectually alienating feature of the politically correct movement was that, in attempting to define the acceptable vocabulary of political discourse, it led to the negation of discourse. From the Sedition Act of 1798, to the McCarthy era to the PC-movement, to Harvard Law's speech codes, censorship is a dangerous threat to liberty...
...words. When they do not, these students usually suffer rebuke and loss of respect from others. In an intellectual environment, perhaps more than anywhere else, an enormous amount of faith must be placed in people's ability to from the free marketplace of ideas and words. The alternative of censorship is ultimately far more sinister and dangerous words that might be spoken in a university without speech codes...
Despite these assurances, peace and security are still lacking. Palestinians have paid a heavy toll for Israel's unwillingness to disarm the settlers or bring in international observers. While censorship of foreign media has made visual evidence difficult to come by, smuggled video tapes show the harrassment, and sometimes brutality, which Palestinians are subject to. International doctors who have worked in the occupied territories report that they have treated patients that had less than a handful of ribs left unbroken...
...last October he filled the 16,500-seat Sports Arena. In New York City a December speech by Farrakhan drew 25,000 to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. This month in Chicago, when black aldermen needed a celebrity speaker to raise funds for their legal defense in a censorship case, they did not turn to Jackson or Chavis or Mfume but to Farrakhan, the one black man they felt could fill any hall in town. Wherever he presents himself as "a voice for the voiceless," crowds throng to his orations, typically almost three hours long, for entertainment and moral...
...letter, president Diana Chapman Walsh condemned Martin's book as "distorted and unfounded," but refused to call for its censorship on the grounds of freedom of expression...