Can You Play “Jew” in Scrabble?

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  As a young woman with too many ideas,

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  I left Pakistan for the promise of intellectual freedom in America.

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  Teaching at a small liberal arts college in the US, where at last I could be fully free.

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  I thought I was in heaven.

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  But recently I've begun to wonder, am I really?

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  With rising censorship, intolerance and cancellations,

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  the West wants that shining beacon of freedom.

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  seems a lot less lustrous from where I sit today.

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  I'm Amna Khalid.

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  This week on Banished, The Temptations of the West, Reconsidered.

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  Find it at booksmartstudios.org.

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  From Booksmart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

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  I'm John McWhorter, and...

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  Let's start here.

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  Let's just start here.

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  You know my thing about pulling the camera back and then pulling it in.

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  Let's start somewhere that most of us wouldn't expect.

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  South Park.

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  I'm going down to South Park, gonna have myself a time.

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  Friendly faces everywhere, humble folks without temptation.

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