Conversations: with Steven Pinker, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University
John Anderson: Conversations
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The Dangers of Free Speech in Sport
I can't come to grips with the fact that we have here in Australia, academics and student activists who consider anyone, academics included, who don't affirm gender ideology to be so dangerous. And yet it's obviously really important that they today,. It's a very heated debate, admittedly, but it's a very important one, you know, women in sport, for example. There is a built-in problem that often when you can have a minority faction of noisy and aggressive activists who can often impose their will because other people have better things to do with their time than to push back. People can be intimidated into silence if there is a regime where not supporting something means that you yourself are
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