Daniel Chandler > Quotes

“While this debate is driven by valid concerns about racist, homophobic and misogynistic abuse, in seeking to prevent insult and offence more broadly, many hate speech laws already go beyond what can be justified by the basic liberties principle.”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“But the problem with this argument is that it depends on a moral belief that some citizens won’t share, in this case, the idea that there is nothing wrong with”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“The system that would get us closest to political equality is to put funding directly into the hands of citizens, in the form of a “democracy voucher”—an annual allowance of, say, £50, that each citizen could contribute to the party or candidate of their choice.[”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“If we want to restore faith in democracy, we need to redesign it from the bottom up.”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“But whereas calls for reparations tend to focus on cash payments alone, fair equality of opportunity demands a much wider set of policies to dismantle the structures that perpetuate racial inequality today, from housing to education and employment. Although fair equality of opportunity is not the same as compensating for the racial injustices of the past, it would remove the socio-economic burdens that racial minorities continue to shoulder because of that history.”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“Stronger enforcement may be part of the solution—we should do more to make sure that victims can access legal support, and we should impose tough penalties on guilty individuals or companies. But the inherent difficulty of proving that a particular decision is the result of racial discrimination means this punitive approach can take us only so far.[75] We should combine these laws with other”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“In these situations, the freedom for LGBTQ+ citizens to walk into a shop or apply for a job without fear of discrimination should take priority, since this is an essential precondition for their civic equality and self-respect.”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“One way we can argue for these rights is to engage directly with the moral question at hand, namely whether homosexuality is morally right or wrong.”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“In Norway, a major expansion of subsidized childcare in the mid-1970s is estimated to have reduced the link between parental and child incomes—already among the lowest in the world—by a further 10 per cent.[21]”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“There is also an increasingly urgent discussion about why inequality has increased so much in recent decades, and how we can reduce it.[2”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“These disagreements often seem intractable, and framed in this way they probably are. Rawls’s theory offers a way to reframe them and defuse the sense of irreconcilable conflict.”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“Rawls endorsed the so-called “Brandenburg test” that has been at the heart of American constitutional law since a landmark Supreme Court ruling in 1969.[20] According to this test, the state should intervene only where speech is intended and likely to lead to imminent violence.”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“If we are committed to fair equality of opportunity, then rights to parental leave should be gender-neutral.”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“So, for example, whether transgender women should be housed in women-only prisons should depend not on an abstract debate about how to define the term “woman,” but on an evidence-based assessment of how best to protect the safety of all inmates.”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“Things are more complicated in the case of misinformation. Whereas political and moral speech are protected as basic liberties, this protection does not necessarily extend in full to false or misleading speech since, like”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“The most basic priority for achieving genuine racial justice is to ensure that our public institutions actually treat citizens from ethnic minorities with the same dignity and respect as everyone else.”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“fraud and libel, this has little value in developing and exercising our capacities as citizens. This means that, at least in principle, the state can limit false information even where this does not pose a direct threat to other basic liberties, as long as this serves an important public purpose, like the need for shared facts in facilitating democratic debate.”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society