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I teach ethics at the university where Richard Spencer spoke

  • Written by Anna L. Peterson, Professor of Religion, University of Florida

Once in a while, life provides us with the kind of dramatic moral dilemma that even the most imaginative ethics textbook writer couldn’t think up.

My community – the University of Florida and the city of Gainesville – faced a dangerous and complicated series of dilemmas as a result of a visit from white supremacist Richard...

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