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Censorship, cancel culture, and truth-seeking (with Iona Italia)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Importance of Having a Good Conversation

I don't want people deciding for me what I can hear. There seems to be increasingly, a belief that the words we use by saying a certain thing that causes you to think it rather than vice versa. And I find that a really extraordinary way of thinking. For example, I'm not interested in whether or not people say the N word and I actually don't mind saying it, but I'm not going to say it here in your podcast. Because I just think there's nothing magic about a set of syllables like that. What I want is for people not to have racist feelings about black people. But it's not about the word itself. It's about the sentiment behind it

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