{"id":56028,"date":"2022-01-18T11:18:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T16:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/events\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=56028"},"modified":"2022-01-18T11:18:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T16:18:03","slug":"why-free-speech-is-the-only-safe-space-for-minorities","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/events\/event\/why-free-speech-is-the-only-safe-space-for-minorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Free Speech is the Only Safe Space for Minorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us on<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><b>Tuesday, January 25 at noon<\/b>, for a lecture by award-winning columnist Jonathan Rauch as he discusses &#8220;Why Free Speech is the Only Safe Space for Minorities.&#8221;\u00a0A lifelong gay-rights advocate and author of the classic book\u00a0<i>Kindly Inquisitors:<\/i>\u00a0<i>The New Attacks on Free Thought<\/i>,\u00a0Jonathan Rauch draws upon his own story and the life of legendary civil-rights leader Frank Kameny to explain why freedom of speech is minorities&#8217; best friend, and why efforts to eliminate hate speech so often backfire. Along the way, he tells an unforgettable tale about the power of marginalized voices and LGBT Americans&#8217; transformative struggle for equality.<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><b>Chick-fil-A<\/b>\u00a0lunch will be provided for all in-person participants.<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>For questions about the event, please email<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"mailto:liberty@gmu.edu\" href=\"mailto:liberty@gmu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"3\">liberty@gmu.edu<\/a>. To register, please sign up<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"https:\/\/events.r20.constantcontact.com\/register\/event?oeidk=a07eiv76wls2a66d6a7&amp;llr=puxroh4ab.\" href=\"https:\/\/events.r20.constantcontact.com\/register\/event?oeidk=a07eiv76wls2a66d6a7&amp;llr=puxroh4ab.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"4\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us on\u00a0Tuesday, January 25 at noon, for a lecture by award-winning columnist Jonathan Rauch as he discusses &#8220;Why Free Speech is the Only Safe Space for Minorities.&#8221;\u00a0A lifelong gay-rights &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/events\/event\/why-free-speech-is-the-only-safe-space-for-minorities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Free Speech is the Only Safe Space for Minorities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":6908,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[2],"class_list":["post-56028","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-center-events","cat_center-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/56028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/56028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56028"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=56028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}