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Resolved: That colleges and universities have a moral obligation to prohibit the public expression of hate speech on their campuses. Alexander, Larry. BANNING HATE SPEECH AND THE STICKS AND STONES DEFENSE. Constitutional Commentary. Spring, 1996 In addressing this issue, I, like most of the scholars, shall take "hate speech" to mean epithets conventionally understood to be insulting references to characteristics such as race, gender, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and sexual preference. ibid. First, it is insulting, and …

…finds Cox v. New Hampshire [1941], Poulos v. New Hampshire [1953], Wooley v. Maynard [1977--this is the case about the "Live Free or Die" license plates], etc.) Weird. 2) Major point: Chaplinsky was a unanimous 1942 decision, but the court began eroding it almost before the ink was dry. There have been any number of subsequent decisions which all but killed the so-called "fighting words" doctrine. Take a look at Cohen v. California [1971], for instance, or Gooding v. Wil