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Tom McClintock: “What we are seeing across the world today is that it is a very slippery slope between banning hate speech and banning…”

On the recordApril 8, 2019
What we are seeing across the world today is that it is a very slippery slope between banning hate speech and banning speech we just hate.
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Tom McClintock
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

He warns against the dangers of conflating hate speech with unpopular opinions.

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