This final paragraph in my last post was garbled. Here is a cleaned up version: I will scan in the whole article this evening and post it to PEN-L. It is very good. Levenson discusses Butler's "Excitable Speech" at length, which is a postmodernist attack on bans on "hate speech." Although the book is focused on the anti-pornography efforts of Catherine McKinnon, it would seem to include things like campus codes against racist speech or graffiti. Logically, this would include taking a position against the anti-Indian mascot campaign. I suspect that behind Butler's "daring" defense of outrageous behavior--both right and left--is a rather banal free speech absolutism of the kind championed by Nat Hentoff of the Village Voice. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
