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344 w/Jacob Mchangama "Speech, Sheep, and a Crying Room"

The Fifth Column

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We Need to Save Free Speech by Preventing Their Speech

The wimar fallacy is what motivates ha beach laws, especially in europewhere they are being tightened. The idea of militant democracy was developed by a german imigrante professor called karl levensteinwh and he said that european states had sinned by attaching too much weight to the principle of free speech when unded by by facism. I don't think that, you know, the third rik and the collapse of of the weimer republic can be explained through the narrow prism of free speech and censorship. There are a lot of factors at play. So i have er, when this comes out, i'll probably have had an abet in the

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