Episode 162: Parents Just Don't Understand (with Paul Bloom)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Consensus on Free Speech
I don't know if I agree with you that there's a liberal consensus on this. People were mad that the Sam Rockwell character who was racist got, they said that he got redeemed in the end. The fact that they were having that conversation at all shows that at least for some pieces of art, I don't think that consensus exists like it did around rap music. Nobody says we shouldn't no longer play 50 Cent music, even though he's an admittedly very terrible guy at one point in his life. We can talk all day about whether or not this was a good message or whether 50 Cent is a good guy.
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