Why Free Speech? (Malik Speaking)
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If you read some of the critical race theorists, you may come to a different conclusion. Perhaps the freedom of racists to speak discourages political participation by African Americans, suppresses their speech, and excludes their ideas from the political arena. All of that would make America less democratic.

It may be that in most cases free speech promotes democracy but that in some cases it inhibits it. We have to think about that possibility and whether it justifies an exception to the general rule on free expression.

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