SIO41: Talking Free Speech, with Michael Shermer

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Thomas Smith

News, Atheism, Skepticism, Democrat, Left, Liberal, Politics, News Commentary, Progressive, Religion

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🗓️ 15 May 2017

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

I'm very pleased to be speaking to Michael Shermer this week, someone who has been more on the free speech war side of things, and someone who has said previously that liberals won't dialogue with him. Well, to his credit, he eventually noticed my Twitter chirpings at him and was willing to have a long form conversation about our disagreements. I think there's a lot of room for optimism at the result, so check it out! Links discussed: Overblown Piece on WaPo Advocating Censorship; Study on Racism and Trump Voting; George Mason Study on Dissonance and Party Affiliation; 538 Article on Perceived Discrimination; Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/seriouspod Follow us on Twitter: @seriouspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seriouspod For comments, email [email protected] Questions, Suggestions, Episode ideas? email: [email protected]

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0:00.0	You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to Serious Inquiries only. This is your host Thomas Smith, and it's episode 41.
0:35.0	Thanks so much for listening.
0:37.0	I'm very excited today to bring you Michael Schurmer, somebody a very prominent skeptic and atheist,
0:43.4	and somebody who, the reason that I wanted to talk to him
0:47.8	so much, among other things, is he's been on Dave Rubin,
0:51.8	he's been with Gad's ad, he's tweeted about, you know, a lot of the similar
0:56.1	campus snowflake kind of free speech stuff and he's also, he also, when he was invited to speak with Dennis Prager, he commented on
1:07.6	Twitter that, you know, the right is so much more willing to talk than the left.
1:12.4	Ever since then, I've been trying to get his attention on Twitter
1:15.0	to say, hey, I'm on the left, I will talk, I'll talk, and it didn't work.
1:19.0	But then just randomly, I tried one more time when somebody tweeted
1:23.0	somebody tweeted at me about like you need to talk to Michael
1:25.5	Sherman and didn't even tag him and I thought I'll give it one more try
1:28.6	and I just tweeted back like yeah it's a shame that you know and I tagged him Michael
1:33.5	Sherman hasn't noticed me because I'm on the left I'm willing to talk and so he
1:36.7	saw it and and uh tweeted me and then and then I got to give him even more
1:41.2	credit his a PR person or whoever it is, I'm not sure his assistant,
1:45.6	something, emailed me and like proactively,
1:49.4	like found my email, emailed me, said,
1:51.4	hey, Michael Sherman would love to talk.
1:53.2	I really have to give him all kinds of credit for that.
1:55.5	That is awesome.
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