The Social Benefits of Protecting Hate Speech and Exposing Sources of Prejudice.
I argue that there are strong consequentialist grounds for thinking that hate speech should be legally protected. The protection of hate speech allows those who are hateful to make their beliefs public, thereby exposing prejudices that might otherwise be suppressed to evaluation by other members of...
| Publicado en: | Res Publica (13564765) Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 225 - 243 |
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Springer Nature
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