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An Outsider’s Perspective on American Culture Wars

The Michael Shermer Show

CHAPTER

The Importance of Free Speech Fundamentalism

I'm a free speech fundamentalist. I am against the criminalization of Holocaust denial. Just let them have their arguments and will debunk them, hopefully they'll just go away. Once you have a law in place, it's too easy to enforce other edge examples. They just go away because they're wrong, not completely. And that's the ultimate fate of that.

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