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Words Matter

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Slate’s April Glaser explains the futility of expelling bigots from one social media platform, only to see them find safe harbor on another. 


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0:00.0

Hey, everyone, it's Mary Harris. This episode contains a little bit of strong language.

0:04.8

If you have kids in the room, just some fair warning. Now for the show.

0:11.6

When Lynette Letterman, the former president of the Tree of Life Synagogue, appeared on CNN this morning. It was still dark outside.

0:18.5

She stood in front of a makeshift memorial trying to make sense out of 11 murders, what's been called the deadliest attack on Jews in American history.

0:26.5

We are thinking of you. I can't imagine what you're going through.

0:32.1

Let me just ask you.

0:33.7

Thank you, John.

0:34.7

You can't, of course, make sense of a shooting like this.

0:38.1

But Lynette had some ideas about what to do next.

0:41.5

What can the country do for you?

0:44.2

What do you need to hear this morning?

0:49.0

The country can stop the hate speech.

0:58.7

Music The country can stop the hate speech. Over this past week, we have been talking a lot about the power of words, words that divide us.

1:05.0

Once again, I'll remind you that the very first thing the president did was condemn the attacker,

1:09.8

and the very first thing the media did was condemn the attacker and the very first thing the

1:11.3

media did was blame the president.

1:13.7

And words that drive people to the polls.

1:16.5

We are about law and order and borders and jobs.

1:23.2

And they are about allowing crime to enter our country with open borders.

1:29.3

My general message to this caravan is do not come.

1:32.3

You will not be allowed in.

1:34.1

There is a right way to emigrate to the United States and this is not it.

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