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Liberalism and Conservatism (with Cassandra Xia and Hank Racette)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Dangers of Political Correctness

I think there's something very unhealthy going on in our institutions which if we can afraid of ideas that are considered noxious and that's my biggest concern about the political correctness thing at the moment. If you're not going to write I don't do boycotts generally but because it's too much to keep track of them as everybody makes little mistakes all over. The danger of dehumanization is one of the key elements there that whenever we look at a group and we say that group has no moral value or is pure evil it tends to be where things go really badly. We've taken human nature which has evolved for little tiny groups of people and put it into a nation of 300 million connected

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