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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: To-Whose-Benefit? on June 22, 2017, 08:51:34 pm
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Campus Reform
Nikita Vladimirov
Investigative Reporter
@nikvofficial
Today at 8:25 AM EDT
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https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9346
A Northwestern University professor argued Wednesday that "hate speech" should be a form of expression that is subject to legal limitation.
In an op-ed for The Los Angeles Times, sociology professor Laura Beth Nielsen contends that “members of traditionally marginalized groups suffer” when Americans are granted the freedom “to be hateful.”
"Racist hate speech has been linked to cigarette smoking...and post-traumatic stress disorder."
[RELATED: Volokh demolishes Feinstein in campus free speech hearing]
“Perhaps it’s nonsense to characterize the nature of the harm as nothing more than an emotional scratch,” Nielsen postulates. “That’s a reflection of the deep inequalities in our society, and one that demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of how hate speech affects its targets.”