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...other words, the hate-speech discourse that Prof. Mansfield and other New Right intellectuals traffic in under the free-speech cultural agency is an extra-democratic bid to entrench privileged cultural enclaves and status enclaves. hate-speech of the type that Mansfield traffics in (viz. homosexuality "undermines civilization") is not just another disinterested quest via the free-market agency for a benign pedagogical outcome...
...civil libertarian perspective on free-dom of speech misses the Nativist hegemony aspect of New Right intellectuals' smoke-and-mirror manipulation of free-speech cultural agency into hate speech. The libertarian perspective lacks a certain humane-enhancing quality, causing libertarian proponents to ignore the fact that hate speech of the Mansfield type typically traffics in four things our postmodern era everywhere generates plenty of--anxiety, insecurity, anger, and confusion...
Given the free-speech issues it raises, Melzer's seems like exactly the kind of case that the American Civil Liberties Union was created to defend. "In terms of people saying it's repugnant and disgusting, this is right up there," says Norman Siegel, the executive director of the New York affiliate. "But if it's NAMBLA today, who is it tomorrow...
...responsible for the never-ending tutor fiasco and the disturbing pattern of free-speech limitations in Dunster House? Apparently...
Regulations already on the books give consumers the right to have their names removed from telemarketers' lists. But an effort to ban recorded sales pitches has run afoul of free-speech protections. After Congress in 1991 prohibited the use of autodialers that delivered taped messages, an Oregon chimney sweep challenged the measure in federal court. Three months ago, he won a ruling that struck down the law; the FCC is expected to appeal...