Perspective
Feb. 12, 2011
Hate Speech: The Current Obscenity
Why obscenity is a useful vehicle for discussing sexist, racist or homophobic speech. By Kevin W. Saunders of Michigan State University College of Law.
In this original study of the relationship between obscenity and hate speech, First Amendment specialist Kevin W. Saunders traces the legal trajectory of degradation from sexual depiction to hateful speech. Looking closely at hate speech in several arenas, Saunders suggests 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 no...
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