Fareed Zakaria: "Liberals think they're tolerant, but they're not."

“Conservative voices and views are being silenced entirely,” Zakaria said, in response to the observation that noted conservatives Pence and DeVos were getting paid to speak at universities, but liberal students didn’t keep their opposition to them quiet. Apparently this is the conservative version of freedom of speech: you shut up and listen to them. :rolling_eyes:

As far as I can tell, liberals don’t think they’re tolerant of intolerance, they just don’t agree they should be. I’ve written enough here about such pleas for tolerance between the two sides, and how they always work by erasing the people for whom there is no such equivalence. It’s like the old lament that the Union and Confederacy couldn’t find some sort of compromise, wouldn’t that have been great, that could only make sense if you don’t mind slavery. Right now these white supremacists, homophobes, et al. are hurting people. They don’t need more indulgence in it.

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