Who are they young radicals . These are activist to our campuses you can find them in places like portland who are different that are all about free speech and due process with those aclu values with those attempts to shut down speakers on college campuses. And with that Progressive Left that day risk offending them and their jobs can be in trouble. Is changing our culture very quickly and dramatically. And with that activist contingent on the young left. It is on the right as well i spend a chapter or talking about the right and the alts right which is a White Nationalist group that has gotten some attention over the last few years like the radical left small in number but loud and vocal with a huge effect in social media to harass people making it unpleasant to be online. Host intersection audi is the operating system of the modern left. What does that mean . It was coined in the eighties used by a sociologist if you are a person and of color to experience racism as a black woman you have multiple sources against you. That makes total sense but that intersectional practice of activism only they can be the experts. So it starts to make me the most depressed person and what about these cracks with increasingly fragile Mental Health activism because they exaggerate the ptsd everybody said they are survivor of trauma that is doubtful but they say that because of a ptsd gives you authority in these circles so they see themselves as mentally unwell. Host how did we get here quick. It is a difficult question there is no easy answers. So in schools parenting have probably led to a generation through no fault of its own to be more coddled and more resilient but schools have changed dramatically. So today there are Police Officers in half of all public high schools. Schools are very safe. The headlines to the contrary are misleading they are the safest. For the longest period of time. Crime has fallen dramatically less risk of kidnapping but and those kids that are arrested for letting them play by themselves you think it is dangerous. And the purpose is to protect me and make me feel safe and then that tied and i need to be protected from that the way the school is responsible for my physical wellbeing. Is this a good trend quick. I am critical of the right as well. I dont want to cause too much alarm talking about a small subset of a radical fringe. And to have that poisonous effect of that culture for a young adult authors canceling their books because young sensitivity reader say this is problematic in those conversations are closed off because a small number of militant radicals with those political extremes are saying. As an example the movie documentary panic attack. What happened. They invited in portland and it was a groundbreaking film to expose what it is like to be transgender. And the activist at this college shut down the event would not let kimberly speak and put up signs they hated her about why . You think she had a progressive film by hilary swank in the nineties is not trans that only a trans person should been playing a trans role so they hated her for that which is so shortsighted and selfdefeating. And that is just an example to be at each others throat that some of these activists are embracing. Host invited to Middleberry College that they were injured. Literally attacked and physically assaulted by protesters. Him what was supposed to be a debate with the left of Center Perspective and they dont want that to happen dont you think it makes him look more sympathetic set of using violence against them . We are keeping the marginalized people in our communities safe from harm of Charles Maries words in view. And contributed to the emotional and mental unrest which is a different idea of how safety works that is at the root of so much of this. They are extremely small. May be hundreds or thousands nationwide and they feed each other because the far right shows up and then the far right shows up and you dont want to be ignoring. And then you have to cover them so that challenge is contextualize them and not make it seem like that they actually are. There was violence against a journalist especially right of center. Yes he is gay but with those activities to say he has no right to cover us and videotape what they were doing. And to exclusively reject the idea that people who disagree should have rights with that aesthetic that was catching on not the tactics but their philosophy. That my enemy should not have rights because they are my enemies. The best thing to do is just to answer back with more speech to say no. I would like to hear Charles Murray or a different perspective. I want to hear this i want the professors left of center with that robust history of free speech activism that their jobs will be at risk if they say the wrong thing thats on the administrators for the rights of faculty. They dont have to arrest students or throw them out of the campus but just make a safe space to actually express ideas counter to the students and not have them suffer consequences for doing so. What your politics quick. I am a libertarian i have ideological beliefs but to put me in the center of some of this because with those goals a progressive activist. And then wanting the left to succeed and then to say that the most radically progressive people are the ones you want to organize with even all of you guys dont agree on all of that. What about libertarianism quick. Going up at a republican household that my parents were libertarian. They were probusiness and said yes that is what i am and then to reason magazine and now i work there. Panic attack. 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