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Degradation - What the History of Obscenity Tells Us about Hate Speech (Hardcover)
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Degradation - What the History of Obscenity Tells Us about Hate Speech (Hardcover)
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Throughout history obscenity has not really been about sex but
about degradation. Sexual depictions have been suppressed when they
were seen as lowering the status of humans, furthering our distance
from the gods or God and moving us toward the animals. In the
current era, when we recognize ourselves and both humans and
animals, sexual depiction has lost some of its sting. Its degrading
role has been replaced by hate speech that distances groups,
whether based on race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation,
not only from God but from humanity to a subhuman level. In this
original study of the relationship between obscenity and hate
speech, First Amendment specialist Kevin W. Saunders traces the
legal trajectory of degradation as it moved from sexual depiction
to hateful speech. Looking closely at hate speech in several
arenas, including racist, homophobic, and sexist speech in the
workplace, classroom, and other real-life scenarios, Saunders
posits that if hate speech is today's conceptual equivalent of
obscenity, then the body of law that dictated obscenity might shed
some much-needed light on what may or may not qualify as punishable
hate speech.
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