{"id":40,"date":"2024-10-24T17:17:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T21:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/?p=40"},"modified":"2024-10-31T14:05:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T18:05:36","slug":"meeting-a-free-speech-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/2024\/10\/24\/meeting-a-free-speech-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting a Free Speech Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_46\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Hari Kumaran Sakthivel &#8217;28<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What is the best way to foster society and resist hate?<\/p>\n<p>In mid-October, Nadine Strossen, former President of the ACLU and lifelong feminist, spoke about why free expression\u2014in all of its forms\u2014needs to be protected.<\/p>\n<p>In her first talk, Strossen spoke on the importance of protecting pornography. She touched on how many people use &#8220;pornography&#8221; to mean entirely different types of expression, why it&#8217;s not as dangerous as some may think, and how limiting pornography is both legally difficult and often counter-productive.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-44\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen3-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In her Strossen&#8217;s second talk, she focused more on free speech in general. She explained how the supposed conflict of &#8220;free speech&#8221; versus &#8220;hate speech&#8221; is overblown\u2014often, the speech people are most concerned about is already appropriately regulated\u2014and how hate speech regulations can foster more of it. Additionally, she spoke about how complex a problem this is\u2014frequently, those who advocate for free expression on one issue will switch to attack it on the others\u2014making holding on to the principle even more difficult. Ultimately, she believes only more speech can counter hate speech.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the other students and I deeply enjoyed the topics. Strossen&#8217;s coming to Wabash and taking on these contentious issues has been a highlight of my semester.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-43\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen4-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen4-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen4-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Hari Kumaran Sakthivel &#8217;28<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-45\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/stephenson-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2024\/10\/strossen2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talking with Professor Scott Himsel. 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