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🗓️ 4 September 2017
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Professor Amy Wax wrote an op-ed last month arguing that society's most vulnerable have suffered the most by the collapse of the bourgeois moral consensus. You'll never guess: the screechers called her a "white supremacist."
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0:42.6 | In there, I found a link to an article about something that's been going on over the past |
0:48.8 | couple of weeks that I haven't known about at all, just did not hit my radar at all, |
0:56.2 | but that I find very interesting for a number of reasons that I think will become obvious. And it's not just because I'm interested |
1:02.2 | in free speech. I mean, I think most reasonable people are in favor of free speech. But sometimes |
1:08.1 | the people who spend all their time talking about how much they are in favor of free speech are kind of boring the rest of us to death. |
1:16.5 | Because, okay, now that we've established that it's okay for us to talk, can we now talk about the substance of what we're saying instead of spending all our time talking about our right to say it? |
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1:39.3 | So there's a woman who is a professor at the law school at the University of Pennsylvania, and her name is Amy Wax, and she is a member of Heterodox Academy, which has Jonathan Haidocke as a member. Maybe he even runs it. I have to go check. But Jonathan Haidt's been a guest on the show before, too. |
2:08.8 | And I think he thinks of himself as being, I don't know, maybe a centrist or as far as one can be from non-ideological. |
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