#23 Konstantin Kisin - Free Speech and Reparations

Within Reason

Alex O'Connor

Religion, Morality, Ethics, Society & Culture, Cosmicskeptic, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Konstantin Kisin is a satirist, comedian, journalist, and co-host of the Triggernometry Podcast. He recently went viral for a speech delivered at the Oxford Union arguing that "wokeness has gone too far", which has since been viewed over 100,000,000 times across various social media platforms.

Konstantin talks to host Alex O'Connor about the limits of free speech, whether he considers himself to be a conservative or right-wing, and whether there can be a sensible case made for reparations for historical injustices such as slavery.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Within Reason.
0:02.0	My name is Alex O'Connor, and Within Reason is a brand new weekly philosophy podcast
0:07.4	with episodes releasing every Sunday dedicated to bringing you long-form conversations
0:12.3	with interesting guests.
0:13.6	Since within reason is a brand-new podcast,
0:16.2	it would be a great help to me if you could go to Spotify or iTunes
0:20.0	if you haven't done already and give us a rating as well as subscribing to the audio version of the
0:24.8	podcast. My guest today is Constantine Kisson. Constantine is a satirist, journalist, comedian,
0:31.8	and co-host of the wildly successful Trigonometry Podcast.
0:35.8	Constantine has written for publications including The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph,
0:40.5	as well as appearing on BBC's question time and recently went incredibly
0:44.8	viral for a speech that he delivered at my alma mater on the motion that
0:49.2	wokeness has gone too far. I am so tired of talking about work culture.
0:54.5	That speech at the Oxford Union has since been viewed tens of millions of times across
0:59.7	various social media platforms and led to Constantine appearing on shows such as Tucker Carlson,
1:05.8	Piers Morgan uncensored, and the Jordan B Peterson podcast.
1:09.4	The video of that speech was released in January of this year, 2023, but please do note that this episode
1:15.2	was recorded on the 8th of September 2022.
1:19.7	That shouldn't change anything about the content of the video, but if you're wondering why it is
1:23.2	that we don't mention that viral video it's because we recorded this beforehand.
1:26.8	In this episode you can expect to hear us discuss and debate free speech. Can words be
1:32.1	harmful and if they can then what's the morally
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