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which is greater than the sum of its parts. Which brings us to sort of our more major topic,

the debate over free speech, and the historical context that brought us to this point. So basically,

the right, pretending to be in favor of free speech is just another in a long line of examples

of the right, taking popular ideas from the left and twisting them to fit their own purposes.

So other examples, they came on board agreeing that racism is terrible,

but refused to actually understand it or teach it, have it be part of education, and are

actively twisting it to make racism against white people a top priority for themselves.

They came on board saying that discrimination is bad,

but only after they figured out that they could claim that conservatives were being

discriminated against by being told that they weren't allowed to discriminate anymore,

the whole like gay wedding cakes and all that. And similarly, they pretend to adopt

free speech, but only as a way of attacking the left while actually happily shutting down

speech as soon as it suits them. So to explain, that brings us to another New York Times article,

the right didn't catch cancel culture from the left,

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