Over the past 20 or 30 years, speech codes have proliferated in the workplace and at colleges and universities.
By a narrow margin, says Gallup, today's college students say promoting an inclusive campus environment is more important than protecting First Amendment rights of free speech.
Large majorities also say they want a campus in which all speech is allowed and that their own campus stifles free expression.
Nadine Strossen, who served as the president of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991 to 2008, is the author of the new book Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship, which lays out a compelling argument against policies that try to restrict what individuals are allowed to say.
Attempts to legally prevent and criminalize hate speech, Strossen writes, typically end up being used against the very people and groups they are intended to protect.
What's more, she says, the alleged harms caused by ugly speech are routinely overstated.
Strossen, a professor at New York Law School in Manhattan, sat down with Reason's Nick Gillespie to talk about her new book, why hyperpolarization in American politics makes free expression more difficult, and the best ways to counter bad, stupid, and hate-filled speech.
http://reason.com/reasontv/2018/05/18/nadine-strossen-interview
By a narrow margin, says Gallup, today's college students say promoting an inclusive campus environment is more important than protecting First Amendment rights of free speech.
Large majorities also say they want a campus in which all speech is allowed and that their own campus stifles free expression.
Nadine Strossen, who served as the president of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991 to 2008, is the author of the new book Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship, which lays out a compelling argument against policies that try to restrict what individuals are allowed to say.
Attempts to legally prevent and criminalize hate speech, Strossen writes, typically end up being used against the very people and groups they are intended to protect.
What's more, she says, the alleged harms caused by ugly speech are routinely overstated.
Strossen, a professor at New York Law School in Manhattan, sat down with Reason's Nick Gillespie to talk about her new book, why hyperpolarization in American politics makes free expression more difficult, and the best ways to counter bad, stupid, and hate-filled speech.
http://reason.com/reasontv/2018/05/18/nadine-strossen-interview
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