Last Friday, Bill Maher’s show Real Time with Bill Maher featured a segment in which he pointed out that being overweight carries many health risks and he offered as a solution a return to publicly shaming people: I watched the segment. And as is often the case on his show, Maher included some decent bits of […]
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59. A Response to Bill Maher on Religion and Free Speech
In this podcast I offer a response to Bill Maher’s recent incendiary comments against Islam. While Maher attempts to position himself as a defender of the true spirit of liberalism and free speech, I argue that his understanding of free speech is egregiously truncated and produces rhetoric which foments misunderstanding, demonization, and the eroding of […]