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Keeping our community whole, part 4: Free speech is not a free-for-all
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Keeping our community whole, part 4: Free speech is not a free-for-all

  • By Patrick T. Hiller, Ph.D.
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Commentary: A shocking act of political violence this year reignited debates about free speech. I write as someone who grew up in Germany. There, the line between free expression and speech that harms is not abstract but part of common sense. Germans learned, painfully, that words can prepare the ground for brutality.

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Letter to the Editor: Question for NFL

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To the editor: If some can justify not standing and respecting our national anthem and our Stars and Stripes as a First Amendment matter of "Free Speech,” others can justifiably consider the same as "Hate Speech,” correct?