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VIDEO: FIRE’s Azhar Majeed Debates NYU Law Prof. Jeremy Waldron on Hate Speech
Last month, Azhar Majeed, Director of FIRE’s Individual Rights Education Program, debated Jeremy Waldron, a New York University law professor and author of The Harm in Hate Speech, about whether the United States should adopt a European-style ban on “hate speech.” The November 6 debate was moderated by Boston Globe reporter Hiawatha Gray and co-presented by the Ford Hall Forum and the Suffolk University Forensics Team.
You can now watch video of the debate.
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