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Not sure why I've been craving chocolate like a fiend lately. Specifically, chocolate cake. And I keep not being able to find delicious chocolate cake that meets my expectations. I am on my way out now to see if this time I might be able to find some good stuff....
It's been a fairly productive day today, though. I've read through a large chunk of Delgado and Stefancic's Must We Defend Nazis? Hate Speech, Pornography, and the New First Amendment. It's probably wrong of me to say that I find their arguments somewhat quaint. I definitely think that there needs to be some kind of legal recognition/regulation of hate speech, but their discussion of the harm that hate speech causes and the idea of socially constructed identities just doesn't capture the nuances of cultural politics as examined by humanities scholars. Of course, the fact that they are legal scholars making these kinds of arguments to a mostly legally-minded audience is what is most important.
It's been a fairly productive day today, though. I've read through a large chunk of Delgado and Stefancic's Must We Defend Nazis? Hate Speech, Pornography, and the New First Amendment. It's probably wrong of me to say that I find their arguments somewhat quaint. I definitely think that there needs to be some kind of legal recognition/regulation of hate speech, but their discussion of the harm that hate speech causes and the idea of socially constructed identities just doesn't capture the nuances of cultural politics as examined by humanities scholars. Of course, the fact that they are legal scholars making these kinds of arguments to a mostly legally-minded audience is what is most important.