Strange Bedfellows:Digging Under Post-communist “Polished Polishness”
Strange Bedfellows:Digging Under Post-communist “Polished Polishness”

Summary/Abstract: Facilitating antisemitism or racialism in the name of the democratic “value” of freedom of speech is to undermine democracy itself. For freedom of speech is not a value, but one of the many democratic instruments. Like all instruments (freedom of assembly, for instance) it can also be misused for undemocratic purposes. Freedom of speech, in other words, is not the “independent variable” that libertarians make it into, but a “dependent variable” that reflects whether the issue at stake is central or peripheral to the beholder. This article examines attitudes to "political correctness" rejected in the name of freedom of speech in Croatia, Poland, Hungary and Romania.

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