Word: unpopularity
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...often, we immediately dismiss those ideas with which we strongly disagree, without reflecting on them or considering their merits. When we deal with unpopular statements in this manner, when we append the label "offensive" to any argument with which we don't want to grapple, we place free speech and liberal education in grave danger...
Although North is unpopular in many parts of the country, political experts say the situation is quite different in Virginia...
...White House officials why Bill Clinton is unpopular, and the answer is almost automatic: Americans, they say, don't give him credit for their improving economy. Though growth is robust, inflation is tame and unemployment is at a four-year low, the officials argue that the uneven nature of the expansion has kept Clinton's approval ratings stuck...
Second, we worry that because the terms "obscenity" and "pornography" are vague, the censor has a broad freedom to stifle ideas that are merely unpopular...
...recognize that many people find obscenity and pornography to be distasteful, demeaning or devoid of intellectual content. They must consider, however, what good is served by encouraging the University to stifle access. If pornography is worthless as speech, students will find it so. If its ideas are merely unpopular, then perhaps they need even greater protection than other forms of speech. Censors silence not mainstream ideas but those of powerless minorities...