University of Iowa Law Professor Samantha Barbas is the author of a new law review article, “How American Civil Rights Groups Defeated Hate Speech Laws.”
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
04:04 “The Birth of a Nation” movie controversy
12:44 Henry Ford’s anti-Semitic “Dearborn Independent”
22:41 American Jewish Committee’s “quarantining” solution
28:41 ACLU’s Eleanor Holmes Norton defending a racist in court
33:42 Racist Senate candidate J.B. Stoner
37:28 Neo-Nazis and Skokie
47:20 Why are college students afraid of saying “the wrong thing?”
52:31 Barbas’ favorite free speech literature
53:15 Barbas’ free speech hero
Read the transcript here: https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/so-speak-podcast-transcript-civil-rights-hate-speech-and-first-amendment.
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Show notes:
Morris Ernst, free speech renegade (Barbas’ previous So to Speak appearance, July 29, 2021)
