Star-Spangled Fascism: Extremists and the First Amendment | Past Forward | American Experience | PBS
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- American Experience presents a virtual PAST FORWARD conversation exploring whether the First Amendment and its near absolute protection of free speech makes Americans more vulnerable to political extremism. This conversation is inspired by our new film Nazi Town, USA.
Panelists will discuss the contours of the First Amendment's free speech protections, and the extent to which they have been used to permit public hate speech and other extremist beliefs, contrasting these legal precedents with those of other Western countries. They will also consider if and how the First Amendment has been adapted to modern digital communication, through which radical thought can spread more widely and quickly than ever before. The panel will reflect on whether speech itself or other factors are responsible for the growing acceptance of social and political sentiments that were once considered extreme.
Panelists:
Dr. Mary Anne Franks is the Eugene L. and Barbara A. Bernard Professor in Intellectual Property, Technology, and Civil Rights Law at George Washington Law School and the President and Legislative & Tech Policy Director of the nonprofit organization Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Her areas of expertise include First and Second Amendment law, criminal law, family law, and the intersection of civil rights and technology. She is the author of the award-winning book, The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech (Stanford Press, 2019). Her second book, Fearless Speech (Bold Type Books) will be published later this year.
Steven J. Ross is Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the University of Southern California’s Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life. His recent book, Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America was named a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History for 2018 and has been on the Los Angeles Times Bestseller List for 23 weeks.
The discussion will be moderated by Adriane Lentz-Smith. Adriane is an Associate Professor of History at Duke University, where she teaches courses on the Civil Rights Movement, Black Lives, Modern America, and History in Fact and Fiction. A scholar of African American history as well as the histories of the twentieth-century United States and the US & the World, Lentz Smith is the author of Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I (Harvard University Press, 2009), as well as numerous other scholarly articles and reviews.
"Those Who Do Not Learn History Are Doomed To Repeat It."
~George Santayana
Thank you for this interesting insight!
Vital Watch. Maybe THE most important vital watch of this decade.
Hate is hate. Speech is speech. "Hate speech" is shorthand & plucks emotions as a means of manipulation. We MUST get back to articulating our meaning, and think rather than react to triggers. The ability to listen & seek understanding is how we move forward. Shortcuts have gotten us here 🥵 Neither life nor humanity are as simple as a slogan, device, or headline. Forgiveness & humility aren't outdated!
I forwarded it a little and it started. Galuck!
"Political extremism" is misleading...overreach-extremism committed by "leaders" affects more Americans than conversations we're free to have. Censorship is subjective, and increasing. Who draws the line?
It's not just in this field or that field: there is a systemic sickness in academic and intelligence life in general. Preposterous false things are believed, and based on foundations that are never challenged. Social Sciences is hit hardest with the Replication crisis. It seems most people have Gell-Man amnesia.
“The student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual - not on the basis of race. Many universities have for too long done just the opposite. And in doing so, they have concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color of their skin. Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice."
-The Supreme Court Justice affirmative action ruling.
Tell me the difference between the American bund party ideology and the republican/maga party ideology?
Sound pretty condescending about the 1st amendment, don’t you know people will not allow anyone to trample on that wake up people and accept others who think differently
Nothing blank screen
wait 45 seconds. then it starts.
If you were on the right you could say anything you wanted but if you're on the left you were censored.
Boy oh boy, has the shoe been put on the other foot now!
Interesting! I learned a lot!
I now understand why the USA is racist to have a border!
VOTE BLUE!
What a disappointment. What I thought was a documentary was nothing more than a panel discussion. Just give us the straight documentary without the breaks.
Hi @eugenebotkins2469, the full documentary is available to view on PBS.org and the free PBS App! www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/nazi-town-usa/
Try reading the description-it explicitly states it is a “conversation.”
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Haha whatever 🤣 🤪 😜
Utterly informative