Trigger Warning (Paperback)

Mick Hume

ISBN 10: 0008126402 / ISBN 13: 9780008126407

Published by HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2016

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Paperback. Concise and Abridged EditionDo we really have the right to say the wrong thing?I strongly recommend this book. Hume is right that the current proliferation of trigger warnings is absurd Guardian In a fierce defence of free speech in all its forms Mick Humes blistering polemic exposes the new threats facing us today in the historic fight for freedom of expression. In 2015, the cold-blooded attacks in Paris on the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists united the free-thinking world in proclaiming Je suis Charlie. But it wasnt long before many were arguing that the massacres showed the need to restrict the right to be offensive. Meanwhile sensitive students are sheltered from potentially offensive material and Twitter vigilantes police those expressing the wrong opinion. But the basic right being suppressed to be offensive, despite the problems it creates is not only acceptable but vital to society. Without a total freedom of expression, other liberties will not be possible. Concise and Abridged EditionDo we really have the right to say the wrong thing?I strongly recommend this book. Hume is right that the current proliferation of trigger warnings is absurd Guardian Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Trigger Warning (Paperback)
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, London
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0008126402
• ISBN 13: 9780008126407
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Concise and Abridged Edition

Do we really have the right to say the ‘wrong’ thing?

‘I strongly recommend this book. Hume is right that the current proliferation of trigger warnings is absurd’ Guardian

In a fierce defence of free speech – in all its forms – Mick Hume’s blistering polemic exposes the new threats facing us today in the historic fight for freedom of expression. In 2015, the cold-blooded attacks in Paris on the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists united the free-thinking world in proclaiming ‘Je suis Charlie’. But it wasn’t long before many were arguing that the massacres showed the need to restrict the right to be offensive. Meanwhile sensitive students are sheltered from potentially offensive material and Twitter vigilantes police those expressing the ‘wrong’ opinion. But the basic right being suppressed – to be offensive, despite the problems it creates – is not only acceptable but vital to society. Without a total freedom of expression, other liberties will not be possible.

About the Author

Mick Hume is a journalist and author. He is editor-at-large of Spiked and writes regularly on free-speech issues. He had a weekly column in ‘The Times’ for 10 years, and was described as ‘Britain’s only libertarian Marxist newspaper columnist’. More recently he has written in defence of freedom of speech and a free press in ‘The Times’, the ‘Sunday Times’, the ‘Independent’ and the ‘Sun’.