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293. Konstantin Kisin — An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West

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Free Speech - The Basic Standard of a Free Society

I agree with everything you said about free speech in your book. But to what extent do we self censor wriht? Because i really don't want to tell people what i'm really thinking, as it's not that that makes me a racist or a masoginist or a anti semi whatever. It's just that people have private thoughts. And the idea that we can rationalize ourselves into a brave new world is one that seems to me to be empirically false. I drawi directly in between that and the freedom, the scientific progress, the technological progress and the dominance of the anglosphere countries in the world. There is a direct connection between these things andthe ability

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