The same controversy coded as either free speech or racism yields different political sides

Evidence

What is the nature of a religion— always the broaching of the universal in the historical? … We see the difference between the U.S. reaction and the British reaction. Rather than keeping it coded as terrorism versus freedom of expression, in Britain the incident recorded itself as fundamentalism against racism, so that you can’t take either side. The only side to take is the British Black women’s, who are against both. It is more complicated for them. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 201

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Framing a controversy as racism rather than free speech prevents easy side-taking — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 202; Tolerance and intolerance are discursive positions across the whole political spectrum — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice: Society,…, 345

Broader Connections

• Framing a controversy as racism rather than free speech prevents easy side-taking #expands (0.85) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 202
• Tolerance and intolerance are discursive positions across the whole political spectrum #corroborates (0.78) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 345