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Qualifying Free Speech Out of Existence: Dare to Speak and the Danger of Polite Self-Censorship

Qualifying Free Speech Out of Existence: Dare to Speak and the Danger of Polite Self-Censorship

November 05, 2020 | by Allen C. Guelzo

It is easy to come away from Dare to Speak filled with confusion about whether, or even how, to take the title’s advice. Reducing minds to group representation is, in the long run, no way to arrive at either truth or justice. Instead, it first leads to conflict, and finally to a weary agreement that the groups can only live in peace separately—and in silence.

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