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2016

Insensitivity

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Language Control, 'Hyper-Sensitivity' And The Death Of True Liberalism, David R. Barnhizer Jan 2016

Language Control, 'Hyper-Sensitivity' And The Death Of True Liberalism, David R. Barnhizer

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

The Rule of Law in America is buttressed by the idea of free speech. Universities are supposed to be centers of free speech, dialogue and learning, in the process educating and preparing students to protect and preserve the unique ideal of the Western version of the Rule of Law. This includes the importance of competing factions attempting to achieve compromise through political discourse. There is a rather significant problem, therefore, when the dynamic and often contentious interactions that produce the ability to recognize the potential legitimacy of others’ arguments and the flaws in one’s own are short circuited by political …


'Fire Away': I Have No Right To Not Be Insulted, David R. Barnhizer Jan 2016

'Fire Away': I Have No Right To Not Be Insulted, David R. Barnhizer

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

Universities are the institutions responsible for advancing our freedom of thought and discourse through the work of independent scholars and the teaching of each generation of students. But for several decades, universities and other educational institutions have increasingly set up rules aimed at protecting individuals and groups from criticism that those individuals and groups consider insensitive, offensive, harassing, intolerant and disrespectful, critical of their core belief systems or threats to their agendas. Even though it has been claimed that disadvantaged interest groups have a right to use one-sided tactics of intolerance against those they consider to be responsible for their …