344 w/Jacob Mchangama "Speech, Sheep, and a Crying Room"
The Fifth Column
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The Importance of Free Speech
In the past decade, there's now a ma ity of americans that believe in evolutioni slo number fo. But those instances of progress did not come about by censuring people with the different. It actually, a large part of it is because of speech. I quote sod of a speech by nelson mandella in 19 94, shortly before he won presidential election in south africa. He said free speech was essential to dismantle apati in south af Africa. And e just comes down on the side of saying, sot af, basically, free speech does not depend on the colour of your skin or the size of your wallet. It's just based on the simple quality
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