ext_300641 ([identity profile] st-rev.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] nancylebov 2012-03-21 07:38 pm (UTC)

I mean actual incidents of concrete harm inspired by dehumanizing speech. Dehumanizing speech in itself is unpleasant but not something in itself to worry about that much, I think, any more than blasphemy or cursing are.

To put it another way, if people aren't actually getting shot, it's a free speech issue. Progressives used to believe in that, I think?

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