In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
The Progressive or Woke Left have increasingly been using the idea of “Stochastic Terrorism” to justify censorship on the grounds that it induces, even if indirectly, violence against women and minorities. More recently, many on the Right have also been citing “Stochastic Terrorism” as a justification to do the same to those on the Left, with the assassination of Charlie Kirk being one such justification, either sarcastically or in full sincerity. Yet again the question of regulating the use of words has been raised, so it is but appropriate to revisit a previous Firing Line Friday when William F. Buckley, Jr. and Steven Pinker discuss whether we should “regulate the use of words”?
Until next Friday.
