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Melissa Chen on Fighting Wokeness at Home and Radicalism Abroad
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April 3, 2021
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1:04:38Now Playing"Ideas have consequences," says Melissa Chen. "But so does silence."
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Chen is New York editor for The Spectator and managing director of Ideas Beyond Borders, a nonprofit that translates new and classic texts about science, history, and liberal political philosophy into Arabic and distributes them as free ebooks throughout the Middle East. Born and raised in Singapore, Chen came to the United States to study genomics at Boston University; she quickly established herself as a foe of groupthink and political correctness in America while critiquing authoritarian regimes in Singapore, China, and elsewhere.
In this interview, Chen tells Nick Gillespie that an obsessive focus on identity politics led the media to keep insisting without evidence that the murder of massage parlor workers in Atlanta was a hate crime against Asian Americans. She also discusses why Hollywood is changing its products to please censors in the Chinese government, and she argues that the best ways to counter radicalization are speech and information, not repression.
Narrated by Nick Gillespie. Produced and edited by Regan Taylor.
Music: "Mine All Mine," by Katrina Stone, Artlist
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