Organizing Boycotts News Today

In action. whether its striking voices from social media, or driving certain viewpoints on the airwaves. beating people up, organizing boycotts, for perceived unforgivable offenses or preventing speakers from being heard on a college campus, its all coming from the same place. a desperate desire to stop debate by branding your opponent unacceptable, and driving him or her from the public square. in just the past week, while i was on my easter break, we saw more examples of the totalitarian agend...

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Talk about where theyre in a couple tour maybe feeling they dont fit in does it change the way that speech is received? >> no doubt it does. a wrote an article showing there are more muslims from europe going to join isis than from muslim-dominated countries. 200 from france. from indonesia, maybe 100 had went to isis. they dont feel part of the safety. maybe self-alienating. it goes both ways. in any event, when you feel like an outsider you dont buy into the country freedom of expression. if s...

A generalized sense of cynicism and pessism and youve been pointing this out throughout, havent you? >> thats the other biggest problem. it goes back to something we need to talk about, which is martin luther king. he had a vision that was initially unrealistic. if there was cable news news in his time when he was organizing boycotts, restaurant access and federal laws, everyone would have immediately gone to that cynical approach saying this doesnt look likely. therefore well talk about it as u...