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Stephen Fry

The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss

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The Curse of Political Correctness

I think I agreed to be on stage with Jordan Peterson at the debate. He's not someone I necessarily agree with in all periods. The rise of bananism is more a catastrophic failure of the left than a particular triumph of the right. And if I want to visit them, I'll bloody well visit them. Yes. Languages can be a ticking bomb. You can occasionally talk about people as cockroaches and so on. But it is just language. We're all aware of how, you know, racist language can be a vicious precursor to racist behavior and to blood on the streets. Yeah. So let's talk a little bit about this curse of the combination of political correctness and virtue

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