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major problems of legitimacy, and the na- tion has a less than stellar track record. Modern marketplace-of-ideas principles exist to shelter unpopular views from the power of majorities. As Kendrick points out, this “is true whether the unpopular belief in question is white supremacy in 2017 Charlottesville or equality in 1964 Birmingham.” 21
I often hear from colleagues on cam- puses that many students and faculty today “don’t understand free speech.” I have come to a somewhat different take. It is not that they do not understand free speech. They just understand it differ- ently.
NOTES
1. 538 U.S. 343 (2003).
2. Nadine Strossen, HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship (New York: Oxford University Press 2018).
3. Benjamin Goggin, “A white nationalist conspiracy theory was at the heart of the New Zealand shooting. This isn’t the first time it’s been associated with terror attacks.” Business Insider, March 14, 2019, available at https:// www.businessinsider.com/white-genocide- racist-conspiracy-theory-fueled-new-zealand- shooting-2019-3
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4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
10. 343 U.S. 250 (1952).
11. People v. Beauharnais, 408 Ill. 512,
97 N.E.2d 343 (1951), aff’d sub nom. Beauharnais v. Illinois, 343 U.S. 250 1952).
12. Ill.Rev.Stat.1949, chap. 38, par. 471. 13. Beauharnais, 343 U.S. at 250, 261.
14. JOHN MILTON, AREOPAGETICA: A SPEECH OF MR. JOHN MILTON FOR THE LIBERTY OF UNLICENSED PRINTING TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND (1644).
15. 250 U.S. 616, 630 (1919) (Holmes, J. dissenting).
16. 274 U.S. 357 (1927).
17. Joni Mitchell, “Both Sides, Now” (A & M Records, 1969).
18. A. Bartlett Giamatti, A Free and Ordered Space: The Real World of the University (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1988).
19. Leslie Kendrick, “The Answers and the Questions in First Amendment Law,” in Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequity, ed. Louis P. Nelson and Claudrena N. Harold (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018) 72.
20. Id. at 73. 21. Id. at 74.
Id. Id. Id. Id.
315 U.S. 568 (1942). Id. at 572.
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