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Further, censorship is inevitably a slippery slope; it is entirely dependent on an individual or group's determination of what has value, a judgment that may not reflect the speakers, much less that of society. But in Frank's United States, the government will apparently have free rein to determine what is "legitimate...
...path to either of the only two possible endings for a story about alcoholism is, dramatically, entirely predictable. So when Alice Green's social drinking starts turning into antisocial behavior in When a Man Loves a Woman, you have an awful feeling that you've been down this slippery slope before...
...inches less on Olazabal's second shot to the par-five 15th would have sent his ball careening down the slippery slope to a watery grave--a near-certain bogey-six, not the eagle-three he eventually corralled by holing a putt of no minimal length...
Once the content of speech can be monitored by thought-police who delineate "standards of sensitivity" for speech, there may be no stopping the slippery slope towards intellectual tyranny. What was perhaps the 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...
...Faculty Council is] afraid that if they take this one step to make this committee they will slide down the slippery slope and form a concentration," Minority Student Alliance member Hyewon T. Chong '95 said in an interview. "I'm very disappointed...