I do have a problem with people on the left trying to shut down and silence people on the right. Hate speech isn't free speech is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. But this is being intolerant of ideas, which can be bad and dangerous, that is not the same thing as being intolerant of someone's race, gender or sexuality. Liberals are not intolerant on those issues. I'm not going to play this game of well one side is intolerant of one thing and the other side is intolerant of another so (shrugs) equal. No, one is fundamentally worse than the other.
If you haven't watched the Gore Vidal vs William Buckley documentary about the '68 conventions and their debates, I cannot recommend this enough. Watching Buckley in his upper crust New Yorker tone, call Vidal and god damned queer who he was going to sock in the face is priceless.
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I do have a problem with people on the left trying to shut down and silence people on the right. Hate speech isn't free speech is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. But this is being intolerant of ideas, which can be bad and dangerous, that is not the same thing as being intolerant of someone's race, gender or sexuality. Liberals are not intolerant on those issues. I'm not going to play this game of well one side is intolerant of one thing and the other side is intolerant of another so (shrugs) equal. No, one is fundamentally worse than the other.
I always say that.