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Would-be protesters are dogged by two counter-objections: the claims that the humorous nature of the writing makes it harmless (“it need not be protested??), and that the writing is protected as free speech and free press (“it cannot be protested??). The first argument is easily disproven. It supposes that mockery, by being different from more severe expressions of racial ill will, is necessarily distinct from them. If this is true, then what taboo bars enjoyment of blackface comedy? The derision inherent in blackface, like that...
...development is as reasonable as it was inevitable. There is no way that a society can function effectively while its members sleepwalk through life, terrified about their prospects for survival and, in any case, worrying that much of their existence is shallow and vacuous. Harvard students have, of course, protested??or supported—the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and, even those who are less politically active have not (and could not have) shut themselves off entirely from following the so-called “War on Terrorism.” But, for the most part...
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