Princeton Course Claims the ‘Far Right’ Abuses Liberty to ‘Justify Hate Speech’ – Opinion

Are you a victim of infringements on your freedom to speak? Princeton’s new courses may have the answer.

The Ivy League school is offering a course this fall called Current Issues in Anthropology: Liberalism, Racism & Free Speech.

Here’s how it’s described on the university’s site:

In the U.S. and Europe, far right activists use “free speech” to justify hate speech. But haven’t understandings of free speech changed over time as countries authorize speech differently? What has the Western history of colonialism and racism influenced what is acceptable speech?

The class promises to employ “comparative studies of racist and Islamophobic hate speech to examine different cultural approaches to managing speech and how these rules are contested/challenged by popular countermobilizations.”

Additionally, the study will “theorize intersections of racism, liberalism, speech from scholars of post-colonialism, anti-black racism, and feminist theory.”

This reading list contains the following:

  • The Return of Race Science: Superior
  • Does Free Speech Make You Racist?
  • The Fateful Triangle: Nation, Race and Ethnicity
  • The Importance of Being Inclusion: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Lives
  • Anders Breivik, Islamophobia and the Rise of Islamophobia

Free speech certainly isn’t what it used to be.

The following cases are examples:

Academics Fear the ‘Hate’ of Free Speech as a Liberated Twitter Looms

MSNBC Host Warns of ‘Real and Devastating Consequences’ of ‘Letting People Run Wild’ With Free Speech

Former Clinton Official Calls Elon’s Free-Speech Vision the ‘Dream of Every Dictator’

University Schools Students on the Importance of Free Speech — and Reporting People Who Use It

MSNBC Warns That Free Speech On Twitter Would Be a ‘Danger’ to Free Speech

Back to Princeton, “hate speech” appears to be a label given to speech which some critics hate. And if you can only partake in speech that isn’t disliked, then you don’t have free speech. Moreover, hate is an emotion; and words that fail to attract universal agreement aren’t inherently emotionally-fueled.

One time Jerry Springer, trash TV host welcomed an especially disgusting guest on his show. During his “final thought,” Jerry offered something to the effect of, “I detest everything you say, but I’d defend to the death your right to say it.”

We’ve come a long way when Jerry Springer stands out as a Founding-Father type.

To me, speech can be either free or restricted; unbound or bound to any tyrant.

Are modern institutions grabbing at the steering wheel? The answer isn’t necessarily a rock-hard “no.”

A new form of free speech has emerged: the very old form that isn’t free speech.

In academia, it’s really caught on — consider a student at the University of Michigan’s justification for destroying a Turning Point USA booth in 2019 (at 1:18):

[Language Warning]

“You know what’s also against the law?” he says. “Hate speech.”

Of course, he’s not right. Bis now.

-ALEX

 

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