
On Cancel Culture and the State of Free Speech
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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The Left Should Have a Robust Defence of Free Speech
i understand and share some of the concerns about ideological narrowness or intolerance. Yet it doesn't seem to me near the threat to democracy posed by a lack of voting rights, or the influence of dark money on elections. You know, tha's like a lot of missing internal links in that type of argument right now. And i do think that you have to basically address speech broadly. Because if you basi just say freespeech doesn't matter, free speech doesn't matter,. then i don't know if you 're going to really mobilize people into carying about it right here. I miht my a, in the instances where it should matter. Do you see it?
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