If You Cannot Criticise Your Side, You Do Not Have Free Speech - William McGimpsey
About this episode
The episode discusses the importance of being able to criticize one's own side in the context of free speech and open debate.
We argue that real free speech requires the courage to criticise the radicals on our own side without sliding into denunciation or cancellation. We test where open debate ends and coercion begins, from political correctness and taboo research to hate speech laws and contested definitions of antisemitism. • why “never criticise your right” weakens debate and traps movements in loyalty tests • media and institutional power shaping the Overton window of acceptable speech • poli...
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