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  • Again, nothing wrong with protecting actual free speech issues (political expression at work, unsevere/isolated remarks, etc.), but the problems with these discussions is that a lot of people are really really worried about someone not being able to talk about sex at work and really really not worried about some poor female employee being driven out of her job by sexist men creating an impossible work climate.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Just What Speech Does “Hostile Environment Harassment” Law Restrict? 2010

  • Again, nothing wrong with protecting actual free speech issues political expression at work, unsevere / isolated remarks, etc., but the problems with these discussions is that a lot of people are really really worried about someone not being able to talk about sex at work and really really not worried about some poor female employee being driven out of her job by sexist men creating an impossible work climate.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Just What Speech Does “Hostile Environment Harassment” Law Restrict? 2010

  • Many of these offenders had long histories of relatively unsevere crimes.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment 2009

  • "He thought too much of himself and too little of other people," Little Ann summed him up in her unsevere, reasonable voice.

    T. Tembarom 1913

  • I'd like to know what your idea of "severe" abuse is verses "unsevere" abuse - because in my opinion no child should ever have to endure any sort of abuse - and you should be very careful to assume you know anything about another persons experience with abuse and how it's affected them.

    The Albert Lea Tribune 2009

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