Student Protests and “Fighting Words”: Critical Race Theory and the Evolution of Hate ...
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Campus Gaza protests are forcing universities to confront whether hate-speech law can ever be race-neutral — and Critical Race Theory says it structurally cannot.
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Theory Briefing
- Critical Race Theory argues hate-speech policies are never truly neutral, exposing tensions in how universities handle campus antisemitism.
- Gaza protest debates have reignited the 'fighting words' doctrine, a legal threshold that CRT scholars say is applied unequally by race.
- Free speech and anti-discrimination law are colliding on campuses, revealing how legal frameworks struggle to balance competing civil rights claims.