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Dr Gad Saad: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense - Ask Dr. Drew - Episode 33

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What Do We Do With Forbidden Knowledge?

In Canada now, I think they're thinking about having some sort of mechanism by which you check what people are writing online that they're not espousing hate speech. That's really Orwellian, right? Because let's suppose that I share statistical data about the terrorism rates across different religions. Would that be considered hate speech? So the hate speech, hurt feelings, incitement to violence are all euphemisms for fascists to stop us from exchanging ideas. It's a protest. And at this heart is made to see that we are now succumbing to that reflex in the West. What do we do with facts that buttress bigotry? How do we have those conversations?

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