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the Plodcast. This is episode 186. My name is Douglas Wilson. I'm very grateful that you

decided to join me. Thanks for coming along. So the thing I want to talk about, sort of the

issue of the day that I wanted to talk about in this episode is what I would call the

The Theocratic case for free speech. The Theocratic case for free speech.

Now I'm toying with the idea of writing a book on this, toying with the idea of writing a book on this, talking with the idea of approaching this whole

thing more systematically.

So consider this as some preliminary sketches, some preliminary thoughts.

One of the things that people do when they first

start grappling with the failure of the great secular experiment and that failure including the abandonment of a defense of free speech by liberals.

So when I was a kid, you know, it was the ACLU and people like that who were out there saying, it doesn't matter what he said, it doesn't matter how infuriating it is it doesn't matter what the difficulty is.

Free speech is sort of an absolute baseline right that we all have.

So many decades ago it would be the ACLU, a progressive leftist organization

that would fight for the right of neo-Nazis to have a march or a parade.

Okay?

And so there was this, and all sorts of things

were brought in under the guise of free speech pornography and relaxation of all sorts of

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