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"We must not let free speech become a battle ground for cheap slogans" is not a cheap slogan itself?

Hitchens certainly was complex. He was a jackass half the time. Certainly a man in love with himself.

"We fight back against the bigotry and the slogans and totalitarian misuse of justice by reminding each other of the intrinsic, mysterious and paradoxical nature of what it means to be a person in a world of unknowns." - I'm not feeling this from your essay.

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"We must not let free speech become a battle ground for cheap slogans" is not a cheap slogan itself?

Hitchens certainly was complex. He was a jackass half the time. Certainly a man in love with himself.

"We fight back against the bigotry and the slogans and totalitarian misuse of justice by reminding each other of the intrinsic, mysterious and paradoxical nature of what it means to be a person in a world of unknowns." - I'm not feeling this from your essay.

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