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Nobody was shedding tears about Trump’s removal from Twitter given how he used it to wage his unrelenting campaigns against women, Muslims, immigrants and the Black Lives Matter movement. Trump used his Twitter account to build his base; he emboldened the far right and incite the attempted coup on January 6. Trump used Twitter to spew hate and incited violence; it served as a powerful tool to advance his right-wing populist agenda. Seen this way, a Voltaire-esque defence of, or idealisation o...

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and British comedy classic Blackadder, claiming that they contain “discriminatory jokes” which may cause “offence”. A 2020 reunion episode of the 90’s American comedy mainstay The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was deemed offensive by Britain’s publicly funded broadcaster, in the latest example of the BBC adding woke warnings to protect the public from jokes which apparently may disturb some people’s delicate sensibilities. The trigger warning before the W...

More honesty and empowering -- i said mrs. clinton had it right her title it takes a village. not her village with the hud and the department of education running things. steve: thats the federal village. >> the real village people know and they can make these distinctions between who is really a menace. who is really troubled. i would like to see more that empowers them to kind of pull triggers and to trigger warnings of people and so forth. steve: so, if you were going to give, you know, becau...

Warnings, these universities tried to restrict free thought and shutdown the voices of great young americans, all of that change is starting right now. jillian: carly shimkus with serious xm 115 with what you are saying online. >> the executive order signed by the president requires colleges to support free-speech in order to receive federal research grants. this is a growing number of colleges across the country have either held protests or canceled conservative speech, speakers from coming on ...

Against donald trump because its trigger warnings and safe spaces and denialism. thats what they do. i dont think they will be able t pull it off. they are in a very bad predictament. tucker, this party of left will have to oppose a motion to ensure free speech. >> tucker: it bewilders us. i hope they push this very hard. professor thanks for joining us and congrats on the book. >> thank you very much. democratic party has every intention of taking over healthcare and energy. but not stopping th...

Its trigger warnings and safe spaces and denialism. thats what they do. i dont think they will be able to pull it off. they are in a very bad predictament. this party of left will have to oppose a motion to ensure free speech. >> tucker: it bewilders us. professor thanks for joining us and congrats on the book. democratic party has every intention of taking over healthcare and energy. but not stopping there. they like to nationalize parenting too. elizabeth warren and kamala harris have endorsed...

Is illustrative, tucker, the values of a campus are no longer esoteric or irrelevant, they are being translated right to congress. we saw at yale or berkeley students rush, now were sitting lindsey graham saying he felt it was dangerous to walk to the senate and we are starting tose see cory booker say i believe your truth. i couldnt believe it. i thought wait a minute, there is one truth that we find in through cross-examination of witnesses and their testimonies. they are not just equal narrat...

Of your zealousness and righteous indignation. its illustrative that the values of the campus are no longer esoteric or irrelevant, they are been transmogrified right into congress. we saw at yale or berkeley students rush, now were sitting lindsey graham saying he felt it was dangerous to walk to the senate and we are starting to see cory booker say i believe your truth. i thought there is one truth that we find it through cross-examination of witness and testimonies, they arent just equal narr...

To know why they do. why? >> but you are -- i was walking down the street in new york city, and this young latino man stopped me with wide eyes and he went "i can serve as i can talk to." he looked at me like i was a panda in a bikini. it walking down 23rd street. [laughter] they dont listen, he said. he said "i literally have no friends left because i cant talk to them." and i said one thing to him -- "talk about policy." dont talk about personality, talk about ideas. how you see the role of go...

On students, making them more stressed out. researchers say they are finding a conclusion that trigger warnings can actually be detrimental to a persons mental health, even making them less emotionally resilient. guy? >> guy: in my book, "end of discussion," about a lot of the stuff we get into trigger warnings. some things can be truly triggering, like people that come back for more. people have survived sexual assault. but the proliferation of reasons why trigger warnings are deemed necessary ...