Over the summer, I debated Ken White (a.k.a. Popehat) and Corynne McSherry, legal director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, about the freedom of speech.
That conversation has been edited and released as a supplemental to this season of More Perfect.
In this debate, I make the uncontroversial suggestion that letting Nazis advocate bigotry and ethnic cleansing is a bad thing for our society. Everybody agrees, and we end up making smoothies and singing campfire songs with the audience.
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I’m kidding, of course, because somehow I live in a country where stopping Nazis is not something that we can all get on the same page about. If you’d like to hear a somewhat left leaning public radio audience abandon me and end up elevating the right to demean women and minorities as a scared expression of American freedom, you should give it a listen.
And yet, I persisted.
Check out the episode, and check out the other great podcasts coming out of More Perfect, if you haven’t already. The Hate Debate is really meant to be listened to after we get all up inside Anthony Kennedy’s head over his Citizen’s United opinion.
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Elie Mystal is the Executive Editor of Above the Law and the Legal Editor for More Perfect. He can be reached @ElieNYC on Twitter, or at [email protected]. He will resist.