What is it about?
In this article I argue that we should take offence seriously, and that the Skokie decision was wrong because it failed to appreciate the extent of offence suffered by Holocaust survivors if they were to encounter Nazis
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Why is it important?
Offence is a neglected issue in the free speech literature, and easily dismissed by the courts. More attention should be given to it.
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Here I formulate the Offence Principle and its significance. I enjoyed writing this article and continue to receive comments about it more than 20 years after publication
Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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This page is a summary of: Harm Principle, Offence Principle, and the Skokie Affair, Political Studies, September 1993, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.1993.tb01649.x.
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