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"The Thought That We Hate": Regulating Race-Related Speech On College Campuses, Michael Mcgowan
"The Thought That We Hate": Regulating Race-Related Speech On College Campuses, Michael Mcgowan
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
In this essay I explore efforts at regulating race-related speech on publicly funded colleges and universities. In the first section, I present the scope of the current debate about the topic: what speech is, contexts in which it is found, etc. In the second section, I present the case for unrestricted speech on campuses for the advancement of knowledge and social progress. The third section addresses standard problem cases for free speech like the non-scientific nature of racist epithets, existential threats to the university, and involuntary exposure to racist speech. The fourth section explores arguments for regulating speech coming from …