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owner: WCC
tags: Freedom of speech ,United States ,Equality before the law ,Hate speech ,Libel and slander ,Racism in language ,Sexism in language ,Feminism
author: Catharine A. MacKinnon
LCC: KF4772

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When is rape not a crime? When it's pornography--or so First Amendment law seems to say: in film, a rape becomes "free speech." Pornography, Catharine MacKinnon contends, is neither speech nor free. Pornography, racial and sexual harassment, and hate speech are acts of intimidation, subordination, terrorism, and discrimination, and should be legally treated as such.

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