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Free speech equals inclusivity

March 13, 2018 | By ETHAN BLEVINS

caption id="attachment_57508" align="alignright" width="300" From Berkeley's Free Speech Movement in the 1960's/caption We need to stop telling ourselves that stifling speech is about inclusivity. It isn't. Yesterday, the New York Times published an article titled "What College Students Really Think About Free Speech," which analyzed survey dat ...

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The answer to hate speech

February 06, 2018 | By ETHAN BLEVINS

caption id="attachment_56925" align="alignright" width="300" The answer to hate speech is response, not regulation/caption I spoke on a recent panel at Seattle's Crosscut Festival about hate speech. Unlike the rest of the panel, I argued that robust and open debate is the proper response to despicable viewpoints, not censorship. Courts have l ...