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22. I'm sorry, speech is speech

Colleges should be bastions of it, not celebrating closing it down.

Remember that whole, "I may not like what you say . . . etc." That is long gone. It's funny. I was recently watching an interview with the old director of the ACLU, Ira Glasser, and he was lamenting how what his organization stood for just seems long gone. I grew up in a time where stories of safeguarding civil liberties included that story of neo-Nazis marching through Skokie, IL.

We've lost that respect for civil liberties in favor of authoritarian enforcement of only allowing speech that is agreed with.

That this train of thought is being taught and reinforced at colleges is a very depressing evolution in this country. I actually think it's corrosive and contributes to the partisan problem we have. "I don't like you. I have to shut you down and erase you from the public sphere." It becomes a contest and path to "winning" if someone can be silenced.

It's not a good evolution, in my mind.

And I think the people who argue for it should find a word other than liberal to describe themselves, because free speech - especially the shit we hate - used to be pretty foundational to modern ideas of what being a liberal means.

"They wanted in the room to boo and chant." Yes, they wanted to shut down speech they didn't like.

That is being anti-speech. Sorry, but it is. No matter what bow you try to wrap around it.