Byon's Regressive Belief System Is Taking Us Backwards, You Know?

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"This is not a left versus right issue at all. I think people who are truly on the left understand that this is a regressive belief system," he says. "It's taking us back to pre enlightenment days", byon adds. 'I'm proud of you,' his mam writes him in an e-mail.

Shermer, Weiss, and Bartning discuss: why we need the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR) when we have the ACLU, the SPLC, etc.; Richard Dawkins canceled by the AHA; hate speech as violence; Liberal and Conservative attitudes toward free speech and how they shifted; private vs. public speech; government censorship vs. cancel culture; anti-Semitism on the Left and the Right; QAnon; Israel and the BDS movement (Boycott, Divestments, Sanctions); What happened at The New York Times?; why free speech is foundational to other rights; and why we need to judge people based on the content of their character and not the color of their skin (or any other immutable characteristic).