The First — Why Free Speech Is Never Neutral
Free speech is often treated as a neutral principle standing above politics. Stanley Fish argues that the reality is much messier: every meaningful speech environment already contains boundaries determining what can be said, where, by whom, and with what consequences.
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Using The First: How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump by Stanley Fish as our lens, this investigation examines why completely unfettered speech may be less a normal condition than…
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