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Beyond The Rhetoric Of "Dirty Laundry": Examining The Value Of Internal Criticism Within Progressive Social Movements And Oppressed Communities, Darren Lenard Hutchinson Jan 1999

Beyond The Rhetoric Of "Dirty Laundry": Examining The Value Of Internal Criticism Within Progressive Social Movements And Oppressed Communities, Darren Lenard Hutchinson

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

Part I of this Article discusses examples of resistance to internal criticism within progressive social movements in order to demonstrate the extent to which such opposition operates as a barrier to constructive dissent. Part II argues that resistance to internal criticism may often result from the embrace of heterosexism, patriarchy, and racism within oppressed communities and among progressive intellectuals, and that any remaining explanations for such resistance are outweighed by the value of internal criticism to progressive theory and politics. Part III offers suggestions-to both internal critics and to the objects of their critiques-for minimizing the potentially negative effects of …


Tolerance Theory And The First Amendment, James L. Oakes May 1987

Tolerance Theory And The First Amendment, James L. Oakes

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Tolerant Society: Free Speech and Extremist Speech in America by Lee C. Bollinger


Dimensions Of Tolerance: What Americans Believe About Civil Liberties, Michigan Law Review Feb 1985

Dimensions Of Tolerance: What Americans Believe About Civil Liberties, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Dimensions of Tolerance: What Americans Believe About Civil Liberties by Herbert McClosky and Alida Brill