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Remembering harmful history

it's the classic saying those who forget history are doomed to repeat it so it's a really like lame excuse for some people to just be horrible how can you teach a dog to a Nazi...

Course: Big questions in societySection: Free speech and its limitsSubtitles: en

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it's the classic saying those who forget

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history are doomed to repeat it so it's

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a really like lame excuse for some

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people to just be horrible how can you

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teach a dog to a Nazi salute people

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should not people were up no we bubble

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wrapped enough

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I think that people are not very good

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with nuance and a very self-righteous

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about their opinions these days more

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than they used to be it's probably very

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important for our lives to take into

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account context and not to have blanket

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rules as long as those guys don't still

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like stand by all those views and stuff

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like everyone's constantly obviously

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learning and growing sometimes making

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fun of offensive things makes it easier

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to deal with

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welcome to a new episode of easy English

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so today we wanted to tackle the

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philosophical idea of freedom of speech

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we wanted to know the people of Brighton

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feel that you should be able to express

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yourself in any way and also if they

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think that the UK is a place that allows

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freedom of speech before we get started

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if you're a fan of easy English then why

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don't you quickly subscribe below let's

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get started with this week's episode

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here we go do you believe in freedom of

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speech I think in essence yes I do in

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its

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