Free Speech For Me - But Not For Thee
How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other
Hentoff, Nat
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year Published: 1992
Pages: 405pp Price: $25.00 Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX6860
Hentoff is a passionate believer in free speech who recognizes that if speech is truly to be free, we must protect the expression even of ideas we abhors. He catalogues with equal disapproval the efforts of both the right and the left to censor speech they don't like. While being sympathetic to those who object to allowing bigots, racists, pornographers, atheists, and others of many stripes the right to lay out ideas that one group or another finds repugnant, he makes both an intellectual and an emotional case for allowing everyone to have their say, no matter how much this may offend some. He points out that suppressing speech doesn't get rid of the underlying thought, but merely drives it underground and gives it the benefit of martyrdom.
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