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January 15, 2002
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In Defense of Hate Propaganda
Perry de Havilland (London)  

In Defense of Hate Propaganda (Sort of)

Reader Martha Lane e-mailed me to ask what was a typical libertarian position on 'hate speech' in a free society. I referred her to In Defense of Hate Propaganda (Sort of) by Pierre Lemieux (pdf format: requires Acrobat reader or similar).

I often recommend stuff found in the Libertarian Alliance archive of publications. It has over 650 mostly short and to the point pamphlets from a wide range of genuine libertarian view points. The Libertarian Alliance does not have a manifesto or a single 'party line', choosing instead to showcase the full range of libertarian views, from anarcho-capitalists to minarchists to Old Whigs to libertarian-conservatives... and everything in between.

Pierre Lemieux's two page article that I recommended above is typical of most of the LA's on-line publications, which is to say brief, easy to digest and free.

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