Title

The Neoconservative Case Against Hate-Speech Regulation – Lively, D'Souza, Gates, Carter, and the Toughlove Crowd

Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

7-18-2012

SSRN Discipline

PSN Subject Matter eJournals; *Humanities - Forthcoming Areas; Political Economy - Comparative eJournals; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence & Legal Philosophy eJournals; Political Behavior eJournals; Legal Scholarship Network; Communication Studies Research Network; Political Economy - International eJournals; Law & Society eJournals; Law & Society: Public Law eJournals; African-American Studies; CommRN Subject Matter eJournals; Humanities Network; Political Science Network

Abstract

Examines certain arguments against antihate speech rules that emanate primarily from neoconservatives and others who believe that minorities ought to toughen up and let racial vituperation roll off their backs Theorizes that neoconservatives oppose speech regulation because it ultimately threatens a key conservative tenet the level playing field

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