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The Dershow

The L word: Liberalism

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Liberalism past, present and future: Is it being threatened by the hard left? Today on The Dershow.

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0:00.0

Today's show is about the L word, the dirty word liberalism.

0:09.0

I will explain to you what a liberal is, and I can do it because I am one.

0:15.9

You will hear the case for liberalism as our country moves toward more extremes on

0:22.2

the hard left and the hard right.

0:25.0

I'll explain the difference between being a liberal which I am and a leftist which

0:30.5

I am not on the dirt show.

0:36.2

With the end of the Trump presidency and the end of really the Trump era after his acquittal,

0:44.2

I would have hoped that we could return to a sense of normalcy by which I mean re-open

0:52.8

the marketplace of ideas, stop censorship, stop this kind of cancel culture that we're

0:59.1

experiencing.

1:00.1

But it's just getting worse, it's just getting worse.

1:05.6

We're hearing case after case of where social media are banning people, de-platforming people.

1:14.2

Bobby Kennedy has just been taken off his platforms because of his controversial views

1:22.1

on vaccination.

1:24.1

Look, I don't agree with Bobby Kennedy on many of the issues that he sets out, but he has

1:31.1

the right to express his views and readers and listeners and viewers have the right to accept

1:38.4

or reject his views on the merits.

1:42.8

We still haven't seen a return of Donald Trump to his various platforms.

1:48.3

Now we have a Supreme Court of Facebook which is supposed to decide all these issues and

1:55.2

their biggest decision so far is that Facebook's decision to ban the showing of nipples in

2:02.2

an anti-cancer film and a film about how to identify early breast cancer.

2:09.3

The Supreme Court overruled it and said nipples are okay and it's also okay to insult various

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