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The Excesses <strong>of</strong> State Regulation<br />
Pol<strong>and</strong>, hoping to play the song "Zyklon B" at Auschwitz to symbolise<br />
Jewish survival, many Israelis protested. One Auschwitz survivor found<br />
this "a desecration <strong>of</strong> the memory <strong>of</strong> the victims." New York Times B2<br />
(August 5, 1992).<br />
44<br />
New York Times A8 (January 29,1992), s. 1 p. 15 (February 16,1992); Los<br />
Angeles Times El (February 21, 1992).<br />
45<br />
Flam (1992). The prestigious Documenta IX exhibit in Kassel removed<br />
four <strong>of</strong> the five paintings by Filipino-American artist Manuel Ocampo<br />
because they contained swastikas, although he denied advocating fascism<br />
<strong>and</strong> claimed they were an ancient mystic symbol. Los Angeles<br />
Times F8 (June 15,1992). Soon thereafter the Galerfa Otra Vez at a Latino<br />
art centre in Los Angeles removed Ocampo's "Vade Retro"—a cartoonish<br />
black man with gigantic genitals urinating on the cross—from its<br />
"Monster! Monster?" exhibit for the Columbus quincentennial. The<br />
gallery refused Ocampo's <strong>of</strong>fer to post a statement explaining his intentions.<br />
Los Angeles Times F1 (October 10, 1992).<br />
Two Columbia <strong>College</strong> seniors argued strongly that "Batman Returns"<br />
was anti-Semitic. New York Times A17 (July 2, 1992) (op ed).<br />
46<br />
New York Times A5 (February 29, 1992); Los Angeles Times A3 (July 25,<br />
1992).<br />
47<br />
New York Times s.1 p.1 (February 23, 1992).<br />
48<br />
Los Angeles Times E1 (January 28, 1992).<br />
49<br />
For consequentialist justifications for regulating hate <strong>speech</strong>, see Riesman<br />
(1942); Delgado (1982); Matsuda (1989: 2327). When Goethe published<br />
The Sorrows <strong>of</strong> Young Werther in 1774, a fictionalised account <strong>of</strong> his own<br />
love triangle, some communities banned it, blaming it for several suicides<br />
that followed. New York Times B1 (August 7, 1992).<br />
Roger Coggan, director <strong>of</strong> Los Angeles Gay <strong>and</strong> Lesbian Community<br />
Services, deplored the threefold increase in attacks on gays <strong>and</strong> lesbians<br />
between 1989 <strong>and</strong> 1991 <strong>and</strong> blamed California Governor Pete Wilson's<br />
veto <strong>of</strong> AB101, which would have outlawed employment discrimination<br />
against gays <strong>and</strong> lesbians. "The veto . . . sends a message that gays <strong>and</strong><br />
lesbians are not entitled to basic government protection. It's a message<br />
that fans the flames <strong>of</strong> gay-bashing <strong>and</strong> bigotry." Los Angeles Times B1<br />
(January 23, 1992).<br />
During his first bout as presidential c<strong>and</strong>idate, Ross Perot followed the<br />
dubious lead <strong>of</strong> Dan Quayle by attacking a "Doogie Hawser" episode in<br />
which the eponymous character <strong>and</strong> his girlfriend, both 18, lost their<br />
virginity. "Some 15-year-old girl that's been thinking about it hadn't done<br />
it yet. 'Hell, Doogie's girl did it. It must be all right.' " New York Times A9<br />
(June 8, 1992).<br />
50<br />
Morgan (1977: 169).<br />
51<br />
Russell <strong>and</strong> Lederer (1980: 24-26).<br />
52<br />
Lederer(1980d: 122).<br />
53<br />
Childress (1991). It is more plausible that tolerating pornography increases<br />
its prevalence. Porn stars are appearing in mainstream films (Traci<br />
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