Word: expressionism
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The lesson succeeds appropriately through an act of language. Wiggins gets the young man to write his thoughts in a journal, nine pages of semiliterate dialect that should not work in 20th century fiction but does because Gaines delivers a written equivalent of authentic oral expression, not a romanticized rendering...
To quote John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. "The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race....If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: If wrong, they lose, what is almost as...
Second, the expression of "false" opinion, while offensively challenging those ideas we hold most sacred, only serves to strengthen these same ideals. It is through intense competition of conflicting ideas in which a quasi- "natural selection" occurs: ideals with the most vitality naturally survive.
He goes on to suggest that "there is an economic structure of racism that will persist even if every white who hates Blacks goes through a total conversion." If this idea sounds like heresy, it's only because we have bought in so completely to the dogma that racism is...
If people disagree with Mansfield's statements, or if they feel hurt by those statements, they have ample recourse--in free expression itself. In an interview with The Crimson earlier this month, Ali called for students to "exercise their freedom of speech...and refute [Mansfields'] statement." He's exactly right...