Eugene Volokh

students don’t want to put limitations on discourse at college (McCartney). Even more interestingly, they found that “most agreed that we don’t have the right to not be offended,” but we do, “have an obligation to learn what offends” (McCartney). As Volokh explained in his article, we must live with offensive speech, because we don’t have the right not to be offended, or else we could loose speech we also cherish. It is true that most of the millennial generation seems to have an obsession with…

Censorship of Black like Me Roman, Y, Shemakov McClintock High School Abstract This report goes on to examine if the banning of the book "Black Like Me" was based on a reasonable grounds, and how censorship should be approached in the modern day and age. The paper concludes that the banning of the book was merely arbitrary, and the idea of censorship is an unnecessary evil that should be avoided at all costs, no matter how pejorative or invidious the language is, it has the right to exist and…

The government and the NSA have been keeping everyone in the country under surveillance in order to help protect the citizens from possible threats. A lot of people believe this is a violation of their privacy rights, but many also understand that some things are necessary in order to keep the country protected. In this day and age, there are various means that a criminal can use to relay information to others which is why the government has to monitor the various tools that the general public…

The opponents of Kim Davis claimed that, as a federal employee serving the people, she was trying to misuse her liberal rights of religious beliefs to only provide the service she would like to provide. However, just as Professor Eugene Volokh from the UCLA School of Law pointed out, state religious freedom restoration act in Kentucky might legalize accommodation for the personalized accommodation she asked for. Actually, as far as I am concerned, Kim Davis herself accommodated her religious…

Commission has already taken the view that it is illegal under federal law to persistently call employees by pronouns that correspond to their anatomical sex but not their gender identity, though it has not yet had occasion to opine about “ze.” (Eugene Volokh, 2017). This is unapologetically disregarding the…

This essay is the concept that many people would like to believe is true, which is “White Privilege” in the modern United States. “White Privilege” does not exist, although there was a time that many powerful Americans discriminated against “persons of color”. Which that would have been racism, not this construct of “white privilege”. “White Privilege” does not judge people off of actions, words, deeds, and character, “white privilege” within itself is racist. “White Privilege” also means if…

accounts where a person with a gun has stopped a shooting. One example found by by Eugene Volokh in The Washington Post, tells about an Uber driver in Chicago that legally carried a gun in his car. He “shot and wounded a gunman who opened fire on a crowd of people.” Using his gun, the Uber driver was able to stop the gunman from potentially killing many more innocent people. Another interesting example found by Eugene Volokh talks about a guy that opened fire in a Philadelphia Barber Shop.…

In my experience working as a teacher’s assistance at a primary school. Students tell me different stories every day. It’s funny and sometimes sad, that this kids relate what they hear at home. They come to school the next day and argue with friends about different points of view that they hear at home and expect for me to validate their opinion. Some parents are not thinking what they are saying in front of their children. Young people observe more than what we think. Children can be playing…

1. How would you define 'hate speech?' Discriminating people or a group of people by written or verbal communication on the basis of superficial stereotypes, such as gender, race, culture, religion, sexual orientation or disabilities. 2. Would you advocate placing limits on free expression (as many European countries do) in order to deal with the problems posed by hate speech? If so, how would you define those limits? Freedom of speech should be bound by certain limits to avoid hate speech.…

According the article, State Constitutional Rights to keep and Bear Arms, written by Eugene Volokh it talks about how people have the right to bears arms to protect themselves, their family, and their Property. Just like when Louie joined the military and used his right to protect his country from the Japanese army that was trying to destroy…