What's the Difference Between Transe Racialism and Humanism?

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I recognize that every person has a unique identity. I seek to understand opinions or behaviour that i do not necessarily agree with. I am tolerant and consider points of view that are in conflict with my prior convictions. And finally, humanity. You would think this would be a no brainer, totally uncontroversial. Most people on the far left reject these ideas. Even if they say that they believe them, they don't. So we discuss what went wrong. Why do we need a far we have the a c u, and the southern poverty law center and the american humanist association? This very week that we recorded this defanistrated richard dawkins for daring to ask

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).