{"id":1256,"date":"2018-08-18T15:58:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T19:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2018-08-18T15:58:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T19:58:51","slug":"if-we-silence-hate-speech-will-we-silence-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2018\/08\/18\/if-we-silence-hate-speech-will-we-silence-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"If We Silence Hate Speech, Will We Silence Resistance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Letter to the New York Times Regarding Editorial on Silencing Hate Speech\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1257 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2018\/08\/merlin_136255311_78f91423-4179-4bef-bfcd-39895024b7b6-superJumbo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2018\/08\/merlin_136255311_78f91423-4179-4bef-bfcd-39895024b7b6-superJumbo.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2018\/08\/merlin_136255311_78f91423-4179-4bef-bfcd-39895024b7b6-superJumbo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2018\/08\/merlin_136255311_78f91423-4179-4bef-bfcd-39895024b7b6-superJumbo-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2018\/08\/merlin_136255311_78f91423-4179-4bef-bfcd-39895024b7b6-superJumbo-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently wrote this <a href=\"http:\/\/Letter to the New York Times Regarding Editorial on Silencing Hate Speech\">op-ed<\/a> for the\u00a0<em>New York Times <\/em>to explore the unintended consequences of silencing &#8220;hate&#8221; speech.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last couple of years&#8211;especially since the election of Donald Trump&#8211;more and more self-described progressives are calling for limits to speech they find offensive.\u00a0 My argument here is that although those limits might be intended for white supremacists, they are more likely to be used to silence radical expression, particularly among people of color.\u00a0 History offers countless examples&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In any case, in the interest of encouraging all perspectives on this issue, even perspectives I disagree with,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/news\/media-watch\/letter-to-the-new-york-times-regarding-editorial-on-silencing-hate-speech\">here<\/a> is a response to my piece from the Anti-Defamation League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently wrote this op-ed for the\u00a0New York Times to explore the unintended consequences of silencing &#8220;hate&#8221; speech. Over the last couple of years&#8211;especially since the election of Donald Trump&#8211;more and more self-described progressives are calling for limits to speech they find offensive.\u00a0 My argument here is that although those limits might be intended for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2018\/08\/18\/if-we-silence-hate-speech-will-we-silence-resistance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If We Silence Hate Speech, Will We Silence Resistance?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}