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Hate Speech on College Campuses
Title: Hate Speech on College Campuses
Category: Social Sciences
Details: Words: 611 | Pages: 2.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Hate Speech on College Campuses
Racism, sexism and homophobia is growing on college campuses around the
country. In response, many universities have adopted policies that address bigotry by
placing restrictions on speech. The alternative to such restrictions, many administrators
argue, is to allow bigots to run rampant and to subject their targets to a loss of equal
educational opportunity. The power of a university to eliminate bias on campus
ultimately depends not on its ability to punish a racist speaker, …showed first 75 words of 611 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 611 total…disciplined under the 'fighting words'
doctrine for racial harassment.
Banning expressions of hate does not make them go away. If we allow them to
be expressed and then each of us takes the individual responsibility to voice our
disgust, opposition, annoyance and why, then we will educate many others to why
certain ideas are abhorrent. Discussion is the best silencer because it reeducates not
just the perpetuator of hate, but those who are observing it
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