When to Punch a Nazi: a Conversation about Free Speech (PART 1 OF 2)

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The Thinking Atheist

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🗓️ 16 May 2017

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Recent headlines have seen violent responses toward the culture's more distasteful voices. White supremacist Richard Spencer is punched during an interview. Milo Yiannopoulos' Berkley speech prompts riots. Ann Coulter cancels her own Berkley appearance over security concerns. Justifiable outrage against outrageous people and ideas seems to spill over into fists, fires, calamity and chaos.

But are these responses appropriate and/or helpful? Is it ever appropriate to respond to words and ideas with a physical blow?

On this two-part episode, we discuss this controversial subject. Your calls and emails: [email protected]

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Part 2 of this discussion releases May 17th, 2017 at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thethinkingatheist/2017/05/17/when-to-punch-a-nazi-a-conversation-about-free-speech-part-2-of-2

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go, the step-by-three, two, one, action!
0:06.4	Assume nothing.
0:08.3	Branch ball face blasphemy.
0:10.5	Question. Everything.
0:12.3	Find it extremely hard to imagine. Open your eyes.
0:16.4	It is quite all right to be an atheist.
0:18.6	The fastest growing group of people in the country
0:21.0	has been measured as being those who have no belief
0:23.4	or who are atheists.
0:24.9	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:27.3	Challenge the opposition.
0:28.9	You see religion on 100 fronts losing the argument.
0:32.8	And start thinking.
0:37.8	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:45.1	Dr. Don Lincoln is a really smart guy.
0:48.8	He's got a PhD in experimental particle physics.
0:51.8	He works as a senior scientist over at Fermilab.
0:54.9	He's also a professor at the Great Courses Plus,
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0:59.7	Now, Dr. Lincoln has a lecture series called
1:01.9	The Theory of Everything, the quest to explain all reality.
1:06.9	Now, it sounds intimidating,
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