Crooked Timber versus Sullivan |
| Published: October 26, 2007, 6:06 pm |
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Just what part of “Congress shall make no law ...” does Chris Bertram fail to understand? When Andrew Sullivan called him out for supporting regulation of speech, Bertram responded with a candid yet spurious admission: The right frame, in my view, is to think of the state as we, the people and to ask what conditions need to be in place for the people, and for each citizen, to play their role in effective self-government. Once you look at things like that then various speech restrictions naturally suggest themselves. ... [I]f we are trying to implement such a conversational ideal in a society riven by deep ethnic or religious divisions, we ll need to take seriously the idea that despised or stigmatized groups might not get their voices heard, and that one reason for this might involve the discourse of other citizens. This isn t a matter of the government policing speech, it is a matter of us regulating our collective [ Full article ] |
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