#FirstAmendment: Freedom of Speech on campus. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution.
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🗓️ 3 October 2023
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#FirstAmendment: Freedom of Speech on campus. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution.
https://www.hoover.org/research/campuses-struggle-free-speech
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| 0:53.1 | Immediately, the mind of these three incidences happen at the University of Pennsylvania. This |
| 0:58.1 | is with the decision of the provost, the president and dean of arts, a two-day gathering by |
| 1:04.8 | people sympathetic, more than sympathetic, to terrorist organization generally understood |
| 1:10.4 | as Palestinian, making anti-Semitic remarks protested by organizations associated with |
| 1:17.8 | the Jewish faith. The question here is freedom of speech in the United States. Is this an |
| 1:24.9 | example of what is tolerable or is this an example of what is provocative? Professor |
| 1:30.5 | a very good evening to you. The speakers at the conference, it took place at the University |
| 1:36.0 | of Pennsylvania Wolf Humanities Center. It was hosted by the Palestine Rights Literature |
| 1:41.9 | Festival for Palestinian writers, filmmakers and artists. It sounds benign. What happened? |
| 1:47.7 | Good evening, too. Well, I mean, in some sense, it is benign, but in some sense, it's not. |
| 1:53.5 | Everything depends upon the way in which you review the speakers who come. And the objectives |
| 1:57.9 | to it were that many of the speakers there had said very strongly anti-Semitic remarks. |
| 2:03.3 | There is this constant debate in the field between the Palestinians and say, we don't object |
| 2:08.0 | to Jews. We just object to Jews. If it turns out that they live in Israel, because all |
| 2:12.6 | Israelis use us on, and it's in their welfare target. In many ways, the most easy way to |
| 2:18.0 | understand what's going on is to look at the map, which is the backdrop for most of their |
| 2:22.5 | discussion. It shows Palestine, which covers the entire territory of Israel, plus the West |
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