Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 ‘You Cunts Can Do as You like’ : The Obscenity and Absurdity of Free Speech to Blackfullas
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Written as: Chelsea Bond
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    y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Shifting The Terms of Debate : Speaking, Writing and Listening Beyond Free Speech Debates vol. 32 no. 4 2018 14342144 2018 periodical issue

    'When the alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopolous toured Australia in late 2017, he attacked familiar targets – Muslims, feminists and much of the mainstream media – as well as ridiculing Aboriginal art as ‘crap’ and ‘really shit’. Demonstrating the transnational scope and ubiquity of contemporary racisms, the UK-born, US-based and internationally-known ‘free speech’ advocate had little difficulty in identifying the key targets of vilification in Australia. This theme issue identifies the deep limitations and the violent consequences of the longstanding and constantly developing ‘free speech debates’ typical of so many contexts in the West, and explores the possibilities to combat racism when liberal values are ‘weaponized’ to target racialized communities.'  ( Tanja DreherMichael Griffiths Introduction)

    2018
    pg. 415-428
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