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Podcast: This Is Nashville
Episode: Free speech or hate speech? The role of rhetoric in violence
Description: A deadly mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket on May 14 sent shockwaves throughout the country, including in Middle Tennessee. In a document written before the attack, the gunman used rhetoric that echoed racist conspiracy theories and, in some places, the recently leaked Supreme Court draft decision overturning Roe. v. Wade.
On this episode, we explore the connections between hateful rhetoric and harmful actions with someone whose community was targeted for harassment and with experts in critical race theory and hate speech.
But first, WPLN metro reporter Ambriehl Crutchfield stops by the studio with...