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Romano insists his opening paragraphs were simply a gambit to make plain the distinction between representations of an act and the act itself. As his review continues, he decides against the rape -- "People simply won't understand" -- but goes on to posit an imaginary reviewer, named Dworkin Hentoff, who likewise decides to rape MacKinnon, with the difference that he follows through. Both Romano and Hentoff are arrested for rape. But wait, Romano protests in his cell, I didn't do it. I just imagined it. Isn't there a difference...
...same as realities. "The book does not say that to talk about a thing is the same as doing the thing," she says. But she doesn't always resist the opportunity to court confusion between the two. "Please disavow this rape of me in your name," she asked Nat Hentoff, the syndicated columnist and hard- line defender of the First Amendment, whose last name Romano had borrowed for his fictional reviewer. (The Dworkin part Romano lifted from another First Amendment stalwart, the legal scholar Ronald Dworkin.) Hentoff complied by publishing a column angrily doing just that. "Rape also means plundering...
...South's treatment of Blacks when two springs ago Bridget A. Kerrigan '91 hung a Confederate flag in her window. The protests that ensued made national news, and in a book that ensued made national news, and in a book that appeared last summer syndicated columnist Nat Hentoff painted Kerrigan as a martyr of political correctness...
...disagree on whether the shifting views are fostered by the A.C.L.U.'s in-house affirmative-action plan that requires the board, formerly dominated by white males, to be at least 50% female and 20% minority. Whatever the reason, old soldiers like Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and columnist Nat Hentoff, both onetime A.C.L.U. board members, see a serious threat to single-minded support of individual liberty. Dershowitz asserts that "the A.C.L.U. is a very different organization today." To him, the key tenet of the A.C.L.U. faith is support for free-speech rights for "causes that you despise." Without that...
...hypocrisy. A lot ofthem wouldn't defend free speech unless it wasdirected at them and unless they were the victimsof censorship. At any given time at a universitythere are only going to be a few handfuls ofpeople who genuinely believe in neutral freespeech for everybody. Mostly, as Nat Hentoff putit so well in the title of his book, its FreeSpeech for Me--Not for Thee...