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  1. Fighting Words: Slurs, Semantics, and the Law

    Stillman, RichardThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2023

    … is that slurs make such potent insults because their uses convey extremely offensive, bigoted <em>attitudes</em>. This dissertation argues that this view is mistaken, and that its falsity has important implications for hate speech jurisprudence. I argue that, to grasp what makes slurs such …

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