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Ep 74 Sarah McLaughlin - Free Speech For All
Sarah has worked with FIRE as a Program Assistant through Drexel's cooperative education program since 2012.
She has defended students and faculty facing censorship in FIRE’s Individual Rights Defense Program, where she worked for five years. She is now Director of FIRE’s Targeted Advocacy program, where she focuses on U.S. universities’ relationship with international threats to free speech and art censorship. She has written for publications such as - Foreign Policy, Artsy, The Huffington Post, and New York Daily News.
Sarah and I discussed:
And much, much more...
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My Take: Everyone agrees with free speech when it's something they agree with, the problem is defending free speech when you have someone with an opposing opinion or set of ideological differences that are contrary to yours. If you want free speech to be upheld, we must agree on an uncomfortable truth which is - free speech should be accessible to all regardless of social standing, politics, religion, or anything else. If we allow open conversation we can hopefully weed out the bad ideas, and allow the good ones to surface.
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Sarah has worked with FIRE as a Program Assistant through Drexel's cooperative education program since 2012.
She has defended students and faculty facing censorship in FIRE’s Individual Rights Defense Program, where she worked for five years. She is now Director of FIRE’s Targeted Advocacy program, where she focuses on U.S. universities’ relationship with international threats to free speech and art censorship. She has written for publications such as - Foreign Policy, Artsy, The Huffington Post, and New York Daily News.
Sarah and I discussed:
And much, much more...
Sarah McLaughlin Twitter
My Take: Everyone agrees with free speech when it's something they agree with, the problem is defending free speech when you have someone with an opposing opinion or set of ideological differences that are contrary to yours. If you want free speech to be upheld, we must agree on an uncomfortable truth which is - free speech should be accessible to all regardless of social standing, politics, religion, or anything else. If we allow open conversation we can hopefully weed out the bad ideas, and allow the good ones to surface.
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