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- Title
Beyond Legal Constraints: Understanding Barriers to Humanizing Responses in the Aftermath of Hate Speech at Private Universities.
- Authors
Epstein, Eliza Morse Bentley; Ngaosi, Nicole Cruz; Khalayleh, Noor; Garces, Liliana M.; Pedota, Jackie
- Abstract
Supreme Court rulings prevent public institutions from censoring hate speech for content—even if that content has damaging consequences for marginalized students and conflicts with other institutional objectives. This case study examines administrator responses to hate speech and impacts for racial inclusion at a private university unconstrained by First Amendment protections. The findings illustrate that, even in contexts where administrators have both the constitutional leeway to enact stricter speech policies and a deep investment in building an anti-racist community, normative understandings about freedom of expression hamper efforts for racial inclusion and humanizing responses. We propose an "inclusive freedom" approach that leverages norms of academic freedom as a path forward for postsecondary institutions to address harm in the aftermath of hate speech.
- Subjects
HATE speech; LEGAL judgments; HATE; ACADEMIC freedom; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; FREEDOM of expression; HATE groups
- Publication
Education Sciences, 2024, Vol 14, Issue 2, p175
- ISSN
2227-7102
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/educsci14020175