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Cultural arguments against offensive speech in Malaysia: Debates between liberalism and Asian values on pornography and hate speech

This article is about analysing two issues of pornography and hate speech in the context of political theory and Malaysian politics.This article examines both issues from liberals arguments and it shows that although liberalism supports the right for free speech, since the 1970s many liberals feel t...

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Main Author: Mohd Sani, Mohd Azizuddin
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Published: Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research 2011
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spelling my.uum.repo.72602013-02-24T07:21:07Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/7260/ Cultural arguments against offensive speech in Malaysia: Debates between liberalism and Asian values on pornography and hate speech Mohd Sani, Mohd Azizuddin HM Sociology This article is about analysing two issues of pornography and hate speech in the context of political theory and Malaysian politics.This article examines both issues from liberals arguments and it shows that although liberalism supports the right for free speech, since the 1970s many liberals feel that pornography and hate speech should not be part of free speech doctrine because both are not contributing for the public good in democratic system and they are also detrimental to the society.By using the cultural arguments of Asian values, Malaysia totally rejects these practices because they are not suitable in a cultural and religious conscious Malaysian multiracial society.Although many are sceptic about the use of Asian values for the rejection and the uses of hate speech by people including the government, opposition and NGOs for political gain, in principle, Malaysians are in consensus of rejecting both issues for the good of society. Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research 2011-05 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/7260/1/12.pdf Mohd Sani, Mohd Azizuddin (2011) Cultural arguments against offensive speech in Malaysia: Debates between liberalism and Asian values on pornography and hate speech. Mediterranien Journal of Social Sciences, 2 (2). pp. 122-134. ISSN 2039-2117 http://www.mcser.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=54
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Cultural arguments against offensive speech in Malaysia: Debates between liberalism and Asian values on pornography and hate speech
description This article is about analysing two issues of pornography and hate speech in the context of political theory and Malaysian politics.This article examines both issues from liberals arguments and it shows that although liberalism supports the right for free speech, since the 1970s many liberals feel that pornography and hate speech should not be part of free speech doctrine because both are not contributing for the public good in democratic system and they are also detrimental to the society.By using the cultural arguments of Asian values, Malaysia totally rejects these practices because they are not suitable in a cultural and religious conscious Malaysian multiracial society.Although many are sceptic about the use of Asian values for the rejection and the uses of hate speech by people including the government, opposition and NGOs for political gain, in principle, Malaysians are in consensus of rejecting both issues for the good of society.
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title Cultural arguments against offensive speech in Malaysia: Debates between liberalism and Asian values on pornography and hate speech
title_short Cultural arguments against offensive speech in Malaysia: Debates between liberalism and Asian values on pornography and hate speech
title_full Cultural arguments against offensive speech in Malaysia: Debates between liberalism and Asian values on pornography and hate speech
title_fullStr Cultural arguments against offensive speech in Malaysia: Debates between liberalism and Asian values on pornography and hate speech
title_full_unstemmed Cultural arguments against offensive speech in Malaysia: Debates between liberalism and Asian values on pornography and hate speech
title_sort cultural arguments against offensive speech in malaysia: debates between liberalism and asian values on pornography and hate speech
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