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172. Andrew Doyle — Free Speech: And Why it Matters

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is There a Racism Problem?

We want to catch in or in our net, the true positives of the actual racis and stop them. The problem is, as it's hard to measure and hard to know who, so you end up having the super broad net. And yes, we're gong to end up with like ten % false positives, but those false positives are going to be resentful. Or maybe it's even bigger than that, because if you put 750 thousand people through sensitivity training, you're kind of telling them you have a problem in your head  and if the person's thinking, no, i don't. Well, it isn't just the case that they're trying to detect racism

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