Systemic denial of education (e.g., under apartheid) deforms the speech of excluded populations, preventing them from developing the linguistic and cognitive capacity for rational discourse, thus violating both their freedom and the preconditions for legitimate democratic deliberation.
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Unidentified Speaker — Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition - Part 6 … [4KVPMTDipbI]Evidence Quote
“imagine for example you had something like the government of South Africa which systematically refused to a large percentage of the population access to higher education well it should come as no surprise later on that they are unable to engage in the speech patterns and the judge and the judgments of legitimate legitimacy”
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Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition - Part 6 - Habermas' Critical Theory— Michael SugrueCreated: 8/10/2026, 11:16:47 PM
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