1st Edition
Free Speech and Hate Speech in the United States The Limits of Toleration
By Chris Demaske
Copyright 2021
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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Free Speech and Hate Speech in the United States explores the concept and treatment of hate speech in light of escalating social tensions in the global twenty-first century, proposing a shift in emphasis from the negative protection of individual rights toward a more positive support of social equality.
Drawing on Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition, the author develops a two-tiered framework... Read more
Introduction
1. Defining hate Speech
2. Favoring Human Rights: The International Response
3. Favoring Free Speech: The U.S. Response
4. First Amendment Theories: Arguments and Counter Arguments
5. Social Justice, Recognition Theory, and A New Legal Landscape
6. From R.A.V. v. St. Paul to Matal v. Tam: The Parameters of Restriction
7. Hate Speech and the Internet: Elonis v. U.S.
8. Campus Speech: Hate Speech versus Free Speech
Conclusion
Biography
Chris Demaske is an Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Tacoma.
