In front of 200 people in Edmunds Ballroom on February 12th, 2009, former ACLU President Nadine Strossen and prominent legal scholar and critical race theorist Mari Matsuda discussed the tension between free speech and hate speech, addressing the issues presented by inflammatory statements and those who call for creating a safer environment for targets. The two scholars drew nuanced and careful distinctions between speech that should be protected and speech that targets individuals or racial groups that should be removed from the public discourse.
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