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The Gist

When Protesters Pull the Fire Alarm

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Slate's Osita Nwanevu defended the actions of Middlebury College students to silence visiting speaker Charles Murray last month. If we consider some opinions to be beyond the pale of acceptability, who's to say that the students were wrong in putting Murray's past writings in that category? Nwanevu is an editorial assistant at Slate.  In the Spiel: If you really think about it, Bill O'Reilly is a lot like Bashar al-Assad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:04.0

It's one day April 10, 2017, from slated to the gist of Mike Pesca.

0:13.0

America doesn't have two coherent policy on Syria, but one thing seems clear here is

0:18.3

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on ABC's this week.

0:22.0

This strike, I think the president was very clear in his message to the American people.

0:26.8

If this strike was related solely to the most recent horrific use of chemical weapons

0:32.5

against women, children, and as the president said, even small babies.

0:37.1

It was clear, it couldn't be clearer.

0:39.0

Don't kill children because that's a war crime.

0:42.7

Count her point.

0:43.7

Here's Senator John McCain on CBS's Face the Nation.

0:47.0

John dropping using chemical weapons as a war crime, but starving thousands of people

0:52.2

in prisons is also a barrel bombs to which indiscriminately kill innocent civilians.

1:00.0

Precision strikes are done by Russians on hospitals in Aleppo are war crimes as well.

1:07.0

And you know what?

1:08.0

John McCain is absolutely right.

1:09.7

I know the history of chemical weapons, I understand why they're banned and that they

1:13.5

should be banned.

1:15.1

But when you trut out the, he killed babies rationale.

1:19.2

You're not actually arguing your case.

1:22.0

The US does not intervene when a brutal regime kills children.

1:26.6

It simply does not.

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