Charles R Lawrence On Racist Speech

Charles R. Lawrence intended audience in his article “On Racist Speech” is college students and universities. His sense of tone is forthcoming. Lawerence word choice sets the tone by using the words conspicuous,dissenter, and bigot. The article gives examples of how universities do not protect minority college students. Lawrence states that universities should protect their students He also gives an example of how universities have tried to have rules to ban racist speech yet they have proven ineffective in stopping racial slurs. The regulations have not stopped the verbal brutality yet it has stopped the occurrences of physical fights. He mentions how students do not have any need to be hurt verbally.

The authors use of logos helps the persuasion of the article. The first use of evidence Lawerence uses is the Brown v Board of Education. He uses that history case to refer to the university students that are going through the same thing as students did back then. The case is about ruling segregated schools to be inherently unequal hence banning segregated schools. Brown in the case is a similar to the university students are subjected with the strain of being forced to live and work in a location where at any point of time can be subjected to verbal assault. Another example the author uses to prove his

He mention the reason why people would claim why it is not a good to mange racist speech. The argument is that the freedom of speech is a stimulus in our democratic setup. Also another claim is that people suffer hate speech but it is necessary for the convenience of the society as a whole. To add it is essential to minorities because it's their only source of getting people to feel bad for them. Regulating racist speech would be impossible it would surge an imbalance between the continued free ideas and the parliamentary process dependent and on the other the need for the further cause of