The Miseducation of America's Alites

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Bery: I would love for people to read that piece, which is called the miseducation of america's alites. The idea is to really give people a community within their local area, within their state, within their city, in ther their school,. Where they can come together and find people who have a similar set of values. A lot of people, i think, have been afraid to speak up there's been a chilling of of speech, of open mindedness, open inquiry. Bery: If you believe what those things aren't form individuals but from an ideology where your mind is exposed to all these ideas for the first time, then leave them behind.

Shermer, Weiss, and Bartning discuss: why we need the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR) when we have the ACLU, the SPLC, etc.; Richard Dawkins canceled by the AHA; hate speech as violence; Liberal and Conservative attitudes toward free speech and how they shifted; private vs. public speech; government censorship vs. cancel culture; anti-Semitism on the Left and the Right; QAnon; Israel and the BDS movement (Boycott, Divestments, Sanctions); What happened at The New York Times?; why free speech is foundational to other rights; and why we need to judge people based on the content of their character and not the color of their skin (or any other immutable characteristic).