Episode 157 - Self-Censorship on Campus: Should We Care? (w/ Emma Camp)
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🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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They say every day Twitter has a main character, and the goal is not to be it. This week, Briahna speaks Monday's protagonist, Emma Camp, the UVA senior who wrote a viral New York Times article titled: I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead.
Brie asks Emma how she distinguishes the "self censorship" which people have opted into for centuries in order in the name of politeness or guarding evolving beliefs until they're more settled, from something more harmful. How does she respond to the criticism that she's been given one of the country's biggest platforms, and yet complains censorship is a problem? Is there truly a cancel culture problem -- even if it's been poorly defined by cancel-culture evangelists? Does the left risk credibility by not acknowledging a sliver of a there there?
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Produced by Ben Dalton (@wbend).
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| 0:00.0 | music |
| 0:30.0 | All right, well, there is a saying, a famous tweet by one maple cocaine who said each day |
| 0:41.8 | on Twitter, there is one main character. |
| 0:44.1 | The goal is to never beat it. |
| 0:46.4 | I am joined today on Bad Faith Podcast by someone who was the main character this week |
| 0:52.0 | arguably Emma Camp. |
| 0:53.6 | She is a senior at UVA. |
| 0:56.1 | Welcome to Bad Faith Podcast Emma. |
| 0:57.9 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:59.4 | So the reason you were the main character on Monday at the very least was because you |
| 1:03.6 | published an article in the New York Times titled, I came to college eager to debate. |
| 1:08.0 | I found self-sensorship instead. |
| 1:11.2 | Start by telling us what you are arguing in this article and then we'll get into some |
| 1:15.7 | of the feedback. |
| 1:17.4 | So really what I'm trying to argue in this article is yes, it is wonderful when universities |
| 1:23.3 | have really good policies in favor of student-free speech that protects student-first amendment |
| 1:28.3 | rights. |
| 1:29.3 | We don't have a culture that embraces free speech and good discourse. |
| 1:33.3 | A lot of negative consequences follow. |
| 1:35.2 | One of them is that students don't really learn because when you are constantly afraid |
| 1:39.7 | of being caught saying the wrong thing, but you are necessarily afraid of is thinking |
| 1:45.2 | the wrong thing, right? |
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