All posts from June 23, 2008
“Yet there runs throughout the opinions of my Brothers Powell and Stevens another vein I find equally disturbing: a depressing inability to appreciate that in our land of cultural pluralism, there are many who think, act, and talk differently from the Members of this Court, and who do not share their fragile sensibilities. It is only an acute ethnocentric myopia that enables the Court to approve the censorship of communications solely because of the words they contain.”
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Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. in his dissenting opinion of the Supreme Court’s decision in the F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation (the “Seven Dirty Words”) case.
Good luck in whatever’s next, Mr. Carlin.
