Racism and 'Free Speech'

Acknowledgements
Preface
A note on form and structure
1 What can you say?
2 Are you kidding me?
3 What the hell is going on?

Part 1 Opening

Part 2 'Free Speech'
The paradoxes of liberty
The rhetorical foundations of liberalism
The trope of infinite and perpetual openness
On persuasion
What do they know of freedom who only freedom know?
The indistinction of liberty
Freedom and foreclosure

4 On tolerance
5 Cancel culture

Part 3 Anti-/Racism
Speech/silence/ing
Speech and silence: an anti-racist dialectic
Racism is/not ...
How racism does its thing
Racism is what racism does
What did you say?
Whiteness and the transcendental imagination
Racism's gothic imaginary
Why anti-racists don't need 'free speech'
Empowerment, not 'freedom'

6 Coconuts
7 On statues, memorials and monuments
8 The paradox of (counter-)hegemony ...

Part 4 Shapes
A one-dimensional freedom
Discursive liquidity: the shaping of discourse

9 The case against no platforming is not an open and shut one
10 Safe spaces
11 On harassment and bullying
12 Paul Gilroy in Finsbury Park

Part 5 Closing
Some final thoughts on liberalism and anti-racism 216

References
Index

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• Filosofia da linguagem
• Liberdade de informação e liberdade de expressão
• Política e governo
• Filosofia social e política

anti-racism; social justice; freedom; censorship; intolerance; cancel culture; liberal left; weaponization; far-right; alt-right; John Stuart Mill; On Liberty; 1859; erasure; mainstream