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What part of that article did you construe as rape/misogyny-apologism?
by turbostyler 12y ago
What part of that article did you construe as rape/misogyny-apologism?
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- lwhalen 12y agoThe part that tickled his (her?) trigger warning, of course.
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- rayiner 12y agoThe whole piece is dreck, a defense of bare-faced bullying of women and gays clothed in the pretense of the first amendment. The social value of speech has always been a factor in the first amendment analysis, and e.g. flyers insulting ugly women and gays don't have any. The worst thing about the article isn't the defense of misogyny and homophobia. It's that it makes it that much more difficult to argue socially-conservative viewpoints that really matter without getting lumped in with guys like these and their vacuous assertions.
- bzbarsky 12y agoJust to be pedantic, the author of the article is British, all the students involved are British, and hence the First Amendment (to the US Constitution, as I assume you meant) is irrelevant. Of course the UK has its own concept of freedom of speech, albeit quite different from the US one.