Habit, rather than analysis, makes it seem acceptable and natural to distinguish between male and female, alien and citizen, legitimate and illegitimate; for too much of our history there was the same inertia in distinguishing between black and white.
The eternal temptation, of course, has been to arrest the speaker rather than to correct the conditions about which he complains. […] When criminal prosecutions can be leveled against [citizens] because they express unpopular views, the society of the dialogue is in danger.
Censors are, of course, propelled by their own neuroses. That is why a universally accepted definition of obscenity is impossible. Any definition is indeed highly subjective, turning on the neurosis of the censor.
“Though no one would ever think of using the term honor violence (we reserve that descriptor for brown people who live somewhere else, motivated by religious...”