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#free-speech
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Free speech should protect offensive religious satire
I write this from a country with strict blasphemy laws, which have led to mob violence and killings. So I'm not neutral on this. The Jyllands-Posten cartoons in 2005, the Charlie Hebdo attack in 2015 and countless cases in Pakistan raise the…
Started by Sana Rizvi8 replies -
Langton is right: you can be silenced while still being allowed to speak
Rae Langton's 1993 paper "Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts" changes how some people think about speech every time my reading group takes it up. I want to defend its central idea against the objection that it is a clever stretch. The idea,…
Started by Femke Bosman5 replies