Sounds like something Oswald Bates would say....
Posted on 11/04/2019 6:40:10 AM PST by karpov
Scholars gathered October 24 and 25 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro to discuss free speech—and focused on its alleged pernicious effects. The takeaway was that the problem is not enough free speech in public, but too much free speech in public.
The conference, “Finding Expression in Contested Public Spaces,” featured a keynote address and seven panels of scholars who presented their research and gave their thoughts on free speech.
Keynote speaker Eric King Watts, an associate professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, opened the event with a speech entitled, “Tribalism, Voicelessness, and the Problem of Free Speech.”
“There is very little good news in my talk,” Watts said.
In his speech, Watts outlined problems that stem from free speech. He began by addressing the historical context of free speech as an idea within a culture.
“In particular, freedom of speech is conceptualized and found in documents as a universal human capacity and right requiring legislative and judicial protections, but this late-18th-century idealism obscures the manner in which freedom of speech is always already implicated in racism,” Watts said. He identified the idea of race as a biotrope (a living, constantly developing piece of language that’s represented by different words), and free speech as instrumental in the social construction of race.
“The very idea of freedom, postulated in universalist terms in the 19th century, and serving as the ontological structure for the First Amendment, doesn’t allow the black,” Watts said. “This exclusion is not legal, nor paralegal; it is brokered by the psychic structure and pseudoscience responding to the biopower imperatives of racism.”
Watts primarily identified the harmful consequences of free speech with one political party: the Republicans.
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Sounds like something Oswald Bates would say....
Fascist pigs. Worthless Nazis.
Where’s that pic of Goebbels?
LOL !!!
Had to look up Oswald Bates. In Living Color was a funny show & they didn’t care whom they offended.
Is the funny hat dude in the pic Bates, or one of the pseudo intellectuals pushing this garbage?
If the latter, that photo needs to be printed, used for a pistol target, then mailed to its namesake.
And now you know why the largest mass murders of the 20th century have been “intellectual” created ideologies. “Intellectuals” have this great capacity to simply manufacture a fake reality to justify their mass murder totalitarian psychopathic poltical dogmas
In the 20th century the Nazis manufactured the fake “Jewish Threat”, Stalin the fake “wreckers and saboteurs” and Mao the fake “bourgeois” threat”.
In the 21st Century the ideologues of the Democrat Fascists party are now manufacturing a fake “racist” threat, and a fake “climate change” threat to justify their authoritarian impulses.
bkmk
Should they be talking about this?
Freedom-haters and Black racists, plus the usual Marxists, hallmarks of the Un. Of North Carolina system.
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