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It's important that if one opposes discriminatory speech, one opposes all kinds. That is that one decides on a principle that it will include all minorities. But if the protection of one minority against another minority is what is happening, then I worry about that.

Judith Butler

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Judith Butler
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 24
Art Theorist
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Cleveland
Ohio
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