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Liberalism and Conservatism (with Cassandra Xia and Hank Racette)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Polarization of the Current Environment Is Troubling

I think all three of us can hold that there are many valid beliefs that are different from our own which I think is very sad and like we need that in order to move forward. There's one particular aspect of political correctness or cancel culture or whatever you want to call it but there's a growing gatekeeper consensus the sense that that there's this impression being fostered. You've got to be really careful about vilifying ideas when when it's one person acting irrationally. If you don't like what's being said in my opinion you shouldn't suppress it, you should correct it speak out. We're gradually empowering organs of suppression in the social media and everywhere else probably in universities

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