In a panel discussion at Dartmouth College called “Are We Killing Free Speech?,” ARI’s Onkar Ghate appeared with ex-Muslim activist Yasmine Mohammed and talk show host Dave Rubin to discuss current free speech controversies. In a wide-ranging, hour-long discussion, the panelists touched on such issues as:
The one-sided, leftist education delivered by most university faculties
The fear of speaking out experienced by college students with unpopular opinions
America’s failure to respond properly to the Rushdie affair, the Danish cartoons crisis and other Islamist threats to free speech
How Christianity and Marxism have fostered today’s widespread victim mentality
The spectacle of leftists fetishizing Muslim oppression of women
The relationships among identity politics, racism and tribalism
The motives of those promoting removal of Confederate monuments
The valid meaning of the “melting pot” metaphor
Multiculturalism: code word for anti-Americanism
Is America basically Judeo-Christian or a nation of the Enlightenment?
How respect for religion obstructs rational analysis of the Islamist threat
What history tells us about the relation between religion and violence
Trump’s denouncement of NFL teams who tolerate national anthem protests: free speech or veiled threat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzVP49iXG74