Ep. 1202 Abolish the Sex Offender Registry?
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Emily Horowitz, a professor at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, was the overwhelming winner (measured objectively by audience opinions before and after) of a debate earlier this year at the Soho Forum on this very topic. Most people assumed no case could be made for her side, but by the time she was done, nearly three quarters of the room agreed with her. We discuss the subject in today's episode.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1202. |
| 0:03.2 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:07.8 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.3 | Folks, the Contra Cruise, hosted by Bob Murphy and me, which people absolutely rave about, |
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| 0:22.3 | Featuring special guests Jeff Diced, Naomi Brockwell, and Brett Vannott, this year promises |
| 0:27.9 | to be the best one yet. |
| 0:30.0 | Great folks, great fun, and unforgettable time. |
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| 0:36.9 | Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Emily Horowitz is with us today. She teaches at St. Francis |
| 0:41.3 | College in Brooklyn, and she is the author of a book called Protecting Our Kids, question |
| 0:48.1 | mark, how sex offender laws are failing us. I first found out about Emily Horowitz when I saw her debate at the Soho |
| 0:57.5 | Forum. I was not there in person, but I saw the video. She debated the resolution that the |
| 1:03.6 | sex offender registry should be abolished. And that's a topic I hadn't ever really given much thought |
| 1:09.2 | to. I more or less like most people just |
| 1:11.0 | assume that the situation we have is probably not too objectionable. But then when I listened to |
| 1:18.1 | her debate, I realized she was raising questions I really had not considered before. And suddenly |
| 1:23.5 | I found myself having to think about it. And she was the decisive victor in that debate. |
| 1:29.0 | They measure it by the shift in audience opinion. |
| 1:32.7 | So it really made me think, you know what, let's talk this through and let's see what the |
| 1:36.7 | truth of the matter is. |
| 1:38.4 | You know, it's a controversial question, and it's, I don't want to run away from it. |
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