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Adam Schiff: “If you use the term disadvantaged communities or at risk…”

Featuring: Adam Schiff, Democratic | U.S. Senate, California

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Sen. Adam Schiff & California's Nonprofits Hold Virtual Townhall

Published | Video Starts at 25:51

It is really astounding to me that a party that once claimed to be anti censorship and took great umbrage at being censored should now be such an agent of censorship where If you use the term disadvantaged communities or at risk communities, or God forbid, you use the word diversity or the word equity or the word inclusion, as if these are all horrible things that you should have your grants taken away. et cetera. I've never seen such a profound effort at censorship. And so we need to put in place protections so that people's rights to associate in the form of … (25:51–26:06)

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