We have been reading about two types of free speech. Today’s campus controversies reflect a battle between two distinct conceptions of the term—what the Greeks called isegoria and parrhesia.
Below are four examples of speech. Click on each and determine whether they are isegoria or parrhesia.
<<if $one is 1>>Example 1<<else>>[[Example 1]]<</if>>
<<if $two is 1>>Example 2<<else>>[[Example 2]]<</if>>
<<if $three is 1>>Example 3<<else>>[[Example 3]]<</if>>
<<if $four is 1>>Example 4<<else>>[[Example 4]]<</if>>
<span id="love"><center><img src= "sound2/malcolm.jpg" width="700" height="350"> </center></span>
<<timed 3s>><<replace "#love">><center><img src= "sound2/petition.jpg" width="700" height="350" ></center><</replace>><</timed>>
<<timed 6s>><<replace "#love">><center><img src= "sound2/council2.jpg" width="700" height="350"></center><</replace>><</timed>>
<<timed 9s>><<replace "#love">><center><img src= "sound2/blm.jpg" ></center><</replace>><</timed>>
<<cacheaudio "wrong" "sound2/wrong.mp3">>
<<cacheaudio "correct" "sound2/correct.mp3">>
<<set $Correct to 0>>
<<set $one to 0>>
<<set $done to 0>>Recently your town has decided that a street that you travel on frequently will be made one way. This will add ten minutes to your commute. You are opposed to this change, so you read a prepared statement at a town council meeting.
<center><img src="sound2/council.jpg" width="700" height="350" ></center>
<<set $one to 1>>
<<button "Parrhesia" "Incorrect">> <</button>> <<button "Isegoria" "Correct">><</button>>
The kids in your town are out of control. Late at night they are being loud, riding scooters, and doing stunts that they post on the Ticky-Tok. You decide you are going to writing a strongly worded letter to the editor support a curfew for minors.
<center><img src="sound2/letter.webp" width="700" height="350" ></center>
<<set $two to 1>>
<<button "Parrhesia" "Correct">> <</button>> <<button "Isegoria" "Incorrect">><</button>> You are a parent of an black student in the segregated Topeka school district. You are tired of the disparities in funding for the seperate schools. After a Kansas court ruled against you, with the help of the NAACP and Thurgood Marshall you argue the case before the Supreme Court and win.
<center><img src="sound2/brown.jpg" width="700" height="350" ></center>
<<set $four to 1>>
<<button "Parrhesia" "Incorrect">> <</button>> <<button "Isegoria" "Correct">><</button>> You are irrationally mad about the new live action Little Mermaid, so you retweet a review by controversial YouTube commentator Ben Shapiro
<center><img src="sound2/mermaid.webp" width="700" height="350" ></center>.
<<set $three to 1>>
<<button "Parrhesia" "Correct">> <</button>> <<button "Isegoria" "Incorrect">><</button>> <center><h1>Correct</h1></center>
[[Home]]
<<audio "correct" play>>
<<set $Correct to $Correct+1>>
<<set $done to $done+1>>
<<if $done is 4>><<goto "Win">><</if>><center><h1>Incorrect</h1></center>
<<audio "wrong" play>>
<<set $done to $done+1>>
<<if $done is 4>><<goto "Win">><</if>>
[[Home]]
<<if $Correct is 0>>"You got 0/4 correct"
<<elseif $Correct is 1>>"You got 1/4 correct"
<<elseif $Correct is 2>>"You got 2/4 correct"
<<elseif $Correct is 3>>"You got 3/4 correct"
<<elseif $Correct is 4>>"You got 4/4 correct"<</if>>