Owner always at home in the same clothes. And then, like clockwork, even though i dont know how clocks work, the same terrifying sky fire. Honey, did you hear about these new geico savings . Is there no way to distract mom . Myself from this endless loop of youll get an extra 15 sky fire and sweat pants . On top of what geico could already save you. Can i call you back . Your fathers been researching our geneology. I got it were vikings theres never been a better time to save with geico. Oh, yeah, theyre definitely switch by october seventh for an extra 15 not allowed to be up on that bed. Announcer its a late show on car and motorcycle insurance. With Stephen Colbert hey, we lost the wifi password. Do you remember what that is . Tonight, curve your enthusiasm. Plus stephen welcomes ibram x. Kendi and Patton Oswalt, featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from a safe distance, itStephen Colbert stephen are you going to be glad when we dont do this anymore or are you
Good evening and welcome to cspan landmark cases, tonight bundaberg versus ohio. Which was unanimously handed down to free speech and assembly, one of the very basics of this case . Brendan burke was the leader of the ku klux klan and ohio, who held a rally for his small group of members and he they filmed, it unaired it on tv. Showing him in a hood, clan regalia in front of a burning cross. Or brandishing guns and making racist statements about the jews and blacks. And he was committed, and sentenced wanted ten years under ohio statute. As a crime to advocate violence. Were going to dig into the particulars of this case, and learn about its impact in our society. But as we get started we have two pieces of media for you, we are going to listen to a little bit of the oral argument in the case, and you will hear some of the particulars of this case, im pleased to notice that includes some of the offensive language, used by the defendant in this case. But its part of what we are talking
Hello and welcome to crosstalk were all things are considered im peter a little cash remember the phrase to honest people can disagree this concept as essentially been the bedrock of western civilization since the enlightenment its also the origins of the american 1st amendment cancel culture is putting all this in question are we now ruled by the hecklers. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Brad Blankenship in prague he is a freelance journalist as well as a journalist. And in bloomington we have Michael Kernis he is a r. T. Columnist and a comic book writer all right gentlemen crossed up or is an affair. That means you can jump in anytime you want and i was it was good and its going to bradford. You know it will be over the last few weeks watching this whole cancel culture phenomenon and i find it is a completely ludicrous anti intellectual and a historical. Antirational ok im a trained historian and i history is full of tragedies that were supposed to learn from ok not w
A hit and let me bring in mike here i mean we have a history you know critically when we look at an american context of what you shouldnt say offensive language you know im going to load that but now its right language what you should say now that is very different from our cultural tradition here and there but if people are going over the line now basically its mind control you can say this but you cant say that before you shouldnt say certain things that would be obviously universally agreed to be of like. Well and thats thats generally where we sit these days i think that in a lot of ways there is this sort of massive amount of offensive ideas that are not allowed to be spoken there verboten a sense you know you youre not allowed to say certain words youre not allowed to say certain phrases someone so forth. That we didnt even consider controversial 1015 years ago if someone if a celebrity is to say well one good example would be terry crews was to say you know fatherlessness is an
And then, like clockwork, even though i dont know how clocks work, the same terrifying sky fire. Is there no way to distract myself from this endless loop of sky fire and sweat pants . I got it oh, yeah, theyre definitely not allowed to be up on that bed. Announcer its a late show with Stephen Colbert tonight, curve your enthusiasm. Plus stephen welcomes ibram x. Kendi and Patton Oswalt, featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from a colbert stephen are you going to be glad when we dont do this anymore or are you going to miss it . Ill miss it did. Stephen im going to miss it, too. Its been lovely. Welcome to a late show. Im Stephen Colbert. Hey, remember when the coronavirus was magically going to disappear in april . Well, its june 25, and yesterday new coronavirus cases in the u. S. Soared to their highest singleday total. No no we cant go backwards. Its been such a long journey. This is like if frodo went all the way to mount doom, was about to throw the ring in