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Ep. 178 The costs of offending religious sensitivities
So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast
What Were You Expecting From Rushdie?
The story today often fades. Like, what were you hoping to see out of Rushdie? It's a very good question because I think that the fact that it disappeared so quickly and people weren't checking in,. The symbolism of a writer's hand being severed, I being kind of gouged out. In Iran to us was such a hate figure in the mind of people in 1989. But after 89, he became common enough that we knew of kind of lone wolf attacks. A white Christian kid who radicalized himself at 17, 18 years old attacked a police officer with an axe in Times Square on New Year's Eve and it's barely been mentioned.
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