The L word: Liberalism
The Dershow
Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
4.4 • 1.9K 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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