Democracy off Balance : Freedom of Expression and Hate Propaganda Law in Canada /
"Freedom of public expression is becoming ever more contested in Canada. The idea that official messages, meanings, and histories can take the place of publicly constructed ones - for fear of what an uncensored public might themselves construct - is gaining widespread acceptance. Public invocat...
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2004.
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- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Foundations of the Imbalance
- I: The Malady and the Prevention: A Brief Historical Perspective
- II: The Political and Intellectual Slide: From Open Bigotry to Subconscious Prejudice to Structural Discrimination � from National Survival to Social Transformation
- III: The Juridical Slide: From a Right of Expression to a Question of Content � the Evolution of Asymmetry in Judicial Balancing
- Conclusion
- Chapter Two: Functions and Assumptions of Freedom of Expression
- I: Participation, Self-determination, and Self-governmentII: Enlightened Publics, Honest Politics, Accountable Politicians, and Self-government
- 1 Enlightened Participation and Social Division
- 2 Meaningful Public Discourse, Social Truth, and Social Division
- 3 Multiplicity of Public Truth and Social Division
- 4 Honest Politicians, Accountable Politics, Public Division
- III: Adaptation, Change, and Enduring Self-government
- Conclusion
- Chapter Three: Functions and Assumptions of Hate Propaganda Law
- I: Peace and Order: Victim Retaliation and Disturbance to Public OrderII: Community Participation and Multiculturalism: Hate-Induced Self-exclusion, Self-withdrawal, Negative Participation, and Assimilation
- III: Community Participation and Multiculturalism: Societal Exclusion � Visible and Invisible
- 1 Visible Exclusion
- 2 Invisible Exclusion
- IV: Social Disintegration and Political Conflagration: The 'Mushroom' Thesis
- Conclusion
- Chapter Four: The Political Dilemma, Part I: Legally Definable and Politically Defensible Hate Censorship
- I: Unwrapping the Politics of Content: What Is Hate Propaganda and How Do You Fix It?II: Unwrapping the Politics of Victimhood: Absolute Victims and Absolute Victimizers
- III: Unwrapping the Politics of Fixing Social Right: Trusted Censorship and Trustworthy Censors
- 1 Competence
- 2 Chilling Effects
- 3 Accountability
- 4 Conflict of Interest
- 5 Fixability
- Conclusion
- Chapter Five: The Political Dilemma, Part II: The 'Slippery Slope'
- I: The Drive to Slide
- 1 Rival Groups and the Conduct of Silencing
- 2 Censors and Self-justification
- 3 The Public, the Politician, and the Paradox4 The Public, the Politician, and the Hatemonger
- II: Changing Course: The Political Dynamics of Self-correction and the Legacies of Censorship's Slide
- 1 The Political Dynamics of Self-correction
- 2 Political Backlash and Its Legacies
- Conclusion
- Chapter Six: The Pragmatic Dilemma: Hate Censorship That 'Works'
- I: How Prosecution Misappropriates Discursive Public Conflict and Misshapes Public Perceptions to the Detriment of the Cause of Repression