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So i just want to -- like, everybody, your new thought, your homework though experiment is every time you hear someone say government, substitute the word public, and see if you feel different about the policy when instead of hearing the word government, you hear the word public. you tend to think of yourself as the public, but not the government. thank you all so much. khalil is going to hang out in the next hour. but up next, when we come back -- no, there's not a next hour, just a next half hour. when we come back, we'll talk about twitter and its take on everything from communism to come...

Sherman, of the super bowl champion seattle seahawks. sherman, whose bravado sparked a firestorm of race talk back in january, posted this little league photo on twitter the day after jackson's release. his accompanying message, quote, that desean jackson and me have been boys since we were kids. no one should be judged by the action of others. #fam. sherman followed up with a column four days ago defending jackson and players like himself, who still have friends back in the hood, writing, consider that for every sever guys i try to help, who end up dead or in jail, there's another person i wa...

But it's completely brilliant. and it's the kind of cultural critique that african-americans are known for, culturally, from the dozens, from toast, on down. >> but i also want to be clear that there is some eating of the self that occurs. you are part of what was one of the most painful things to watch over the course of the past year, something that michelle goldberg described in her "nation" piece as the toxic feminist twitter wars. and i'll just read a piece from goldberg, who says, even as online feminism has proved itself a real force for change, many of the most avid digital feminists w...

More importantly, perhaps, just draw attention to a message, it's a tremendously powerful tool. when that power is then levied against a single individual who steps out of line, it becomes a lot more like, i don't know, cyberbullying? yes, that term's been used. >> so richard, as you look at that particular moment, the cancel colbert moment, because i think, for all of us on twitter, there are moments where it's like, yeah, go twitter, get 'em, twitter. and other times, oh, god, is this happening, oh, no. how did you experience the cancel colbert moment? >> when that came out, you had to read ...

That didn't work. then, there was the bay of pigs invasion. in april 1961, the u.s. tried to topple fidel and his communist government with a group of cia financed and trained cuban refugees. well, that failed too. the group was overwhelmed by counterattacks from castro's military. of the 1,200 plus cuban exiles, 100 were killed and 1,100 were captured. despite the failures of the united states to either assassinate or oust fidel castro, poison, and an armed invasion are widely recognized methods for eliminating one's enemies. and even though castro handed power over to his brother, raul, in 2...