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The Rubin Report

Oxford Union Speech: The Only Thing Worse Than Being Censored Is This | Dave Rubin

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.513.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” speaks to students at Oxford Union about the importance of free speech and the dangers of cancel culture; he highlights Oxford’s legacy of intellectual debate and warns against silencing opposing views; how real dialogue happens through disagreement and mutual respect, not mob censorship; online anonymity’s role in weaponizing outrage and silencing dissent; why words are not violence and free speech must be protected at all costs; and much more. Check out the NEW RUBIN REPORT MERCH here: https://daverubin.store/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Admiral spots the Greens.

0:02.1

They're doing up their house.

0:04.0

Need a hand with anything?

0:05.7

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0:06.4

Once the solar panels are up, our eco-transformation is complete.

0:10.5

We've even bought a new electric car.

0:12.7

Green?

0:13.3

To match the house.

0:14.9

Yeah, it looks fab.

0:16.2

But why are we whispering?

0:17.7

We're trying to reduce our noise pollution.

0:20.6

Admiral is as committed as the

0:22.1

Greens in covering your switch to electric. Get a quote now for your electric car and more. Admiral

0:27.5

Insurance, always looking out for you. Thank you guys. It's a pleasure and an honor to be here. And actually talking about free speech is literally my favorite thing to do. So we have 12 minutes to do my favorite thing. I try never to give the same speech twice because exercising free speech is a good exercise in how you use your mind

0:55.6

and how you think and how you breathe actually and how you communicate with people. And I was on the

1:02.6

way here from London. I was in the car and I was thinking, well, what would I want to talk about at

1:09.1

Oxford when we're talking about cancel culture and free speech?

1:12.7

And it hit me that this is a thousand-year-old institution.

1:17.2

A thousand-year-old institution that you all have the privilege of going to,

1:21.1

that over decades and literally hundreds of years, people have battled ideas.

1:27.4

They've battled ideas about science and

1:29.0

religion and philosophy and history and politics and everything else. And sometimes people

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