Greg Lukianoff: Democracy Can Handle Free Speech

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Roughly 700 professors have been targeted for firing in recent years for something they said - an historic high. Yet, critics still say there's no such thing as cancel culture. Do Americans just have to shut up to keep their jobs? FIRE's Greg Lukianoff joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.3	Welcome to the Bullwark podcast.
0:39.7	I'm Charlie Sykes.
0:40.7	The morning after a rather impactful hearing, and I guess I should confess, I had two things
0:45.8	that I appear to be wrong about, and I'm only going to spend a short amount of time on
0:49.5	this, and I'm certainly not limiting it to two things.
0:52.2	And number one, it looks like the NRA is about to lose bigly on gun control legislation.
0:59.0	I think listeners of this podcast know that I have been hopeful, but deeply skeptical
1:03.6	and cynical about the ability of Washington to get any kind of legislation through.
1:08.3	It's not perfect.
1:09.3	It does not solve the problem, but it is a remedy.
1:12.1	And for the first time in 30 years, they were able to put together a bipartisan majority.
1:16.9	So remarkable, NRA is all in against it.
1:22.5	I suppose one could be really cynical and think that we're engaging in this massive
1:27.4	kabuki dance where everyone is doing what is in their interest.
1:31.9	The NRA knows that it has to be opposed, although it knows that the legislation could have
1:39.1	been a lot worse.
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