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OnlySubs: The Four Parts of Free Speech

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I touch on Andrew Doyle's book and then dive into a discussion of the four aspects of freedom of speech that are crucial to a robust understanding of the concept (and also how Wokeness rejects all of them).

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Reflecting on Skokie and the Necessity of Distasteful Speech

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Reflecting on Skokie and the Necessity of Distasteful Speech

In 1977 the United States Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision in favour of the National Socialist Party of America (NSPA). The Village of Skokie sued the NSPA to prevent the neo-Nazi organization from holding a rally.

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A First-Amendment Case for Freedom from the Woke Religion

The question of whether or not the worldview and practice—for practice it intentionally is—going variously by the names “Social Justice,” “Critical Social Justice,” or, more colloquially, “Woke” constitutes a religion is one of some general interest that seems to be growing.

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Peter Boghossian: How Social Justice Silences

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How Social Justice Silences

Peter Boghossian outlines seven different ways that the Critical Social Justice ideology stifles free speech and discusses each with poignant examples.

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Sticks and Stones: Coping with Offensive, Hurtful, Insensitive, & Otherwise Unwelcome Speech

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Sticks and Stones: Coping with Offensive, Hurtful, Insensitive, & Otherwise Unwelcome Speech

“Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” For generations, American children were taught this simple rhyme...but what about when words do hurt?

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