Hate Speech, Pornography, and the Radical Attack on Free Speech Doctrine
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: January 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780813327099
Subjects: Freedom of information & freedom of speech; United States; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; USA; Constitutional; Law / Constitutional; Hate speech; Freedom of speech; Pornography
Description: "Does American free speech doctrine discriminate against women and minorities? In Hate Speech, Pornography, and the Radical Attack on Free Speech Doctrine, James Weinstein carefully examines the charge that in interpreting the First Amendment as protecting hate speech and pornography while allowing myriad other exceptions to free speech, American courts have privileged the Interests of the rich and powerful over the interests of women and people of color.

The author concludes that while free speech doctrine is not in any deep sense as natural as some of its apologists believe, the claim that free speech decisions and principles systematically discriminate against women and minorities does not withstand scrutiny. He shows that this claim of discrimination is based upon a profound but widely shared misunderstanding of the actual workings of free speech doctrine."--BOOK JACKET.