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Erving Goffman points out that every "crack or remark set up the possibility of a counter-riposte, topper, or squelch, that is, a comeback". [10] He cites the example of possible interchanges at a dance in a school gym: A one-liner: Boy: "Care to dance?" Girl: "No, I came here to play basketball" Boy: (crumbles) A comeback: Boy: "Care to dance?"
[16] [18] Chafee argued in Free Speech in the United States that a better analogy in Schenck might be a man who stands in a theatre and warns the audience that there are not enough fire exits. [19] [20] In his introductory remarks to a 2006 debate in defense of free speech, writer Christopher Hitchens parodied the Holmes judgment by opening ...
Views vary with geography and culture, over time, and among individuals. Many terms that some people view as harmful are not viewed as hurtful by others, and even where some people are hurt by certain terms, others may be hurt by the replacement of such terms with what they consider to be euphemisms (e.g., "differently abled" or "special needs ...
It’s likely why this question recently made the rounds on Reddit: “What's the most hurtful thing someone has ever said to you?” People reopened deep wounds – some from decades ago – by ...
America has a long history of defending free speech, even speech that hurts. Shutting it down now could have real repercussions for our nation. Why silencing speech, even hurtful speech, makes us ...
See a pin and pick it up, all the day you will have good luck; See a pin and let it lay, bad luck you will have all day; See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil; Seeing is believing; Seek and ye shall find; Set a thief to catch a thief; Shiny are the distant hills; Shrouds have no pockets (Speech is silver but) Silence is golden
"For anybody out there still on their journey, still struggling to find their way, whatever it is that you do: Just because it hasn't happened doesn't mean it isn't happening," Moore said.
Lashon hara (or loshon horo, or loshon hora) (Hebrew: לשון הרע ; "evil tongue") is the halakhic term for speech about a person or persons that is negative or harmful to them, even though it is true. [4] It is speech that damages the person(s) who is talked about either emotionally or financially, or lowers them in the estimation of ...