| The SPLA claims the raids were an attempt to defame and vilify teachers and demanded that the government discipline the inspectors involved. |
| Today I am not saying this to vilify the south Korean authorities in front of you, but because they went too far. |
| But their antiintellectual jeremiads, not the professors they vilify, are the real threat to academic freedom today. |
| In a democratic society, freedom of speech does not mean the right to vilify. |
| In the absence of that, it seems to me a political view that doesn't vilify anybody, doesn't defame anybody. |
| The experience with smoking shows that changing societal norms to vilify a formerly accepted practice for the sake of public health can work. |
