Particularly causing issues on college campus. You infind them in the streets of places like world as well who are ported as well. Theyrety. The oldlets wafts free free. Due process, aclu value. Right now you see attempts to shut down speakers who come do College Campuses. Even the professors of the activist students who are purport early on the left as wellings the Progressive Left say they cant have conversation is with these studentses and they risk offending system they do offend them their jobs could be in trouble because they can be investigated. Its changing our culture very quickly and dramatically toward this cancel everybody. Wharf is a problematic has to be run out of pock life and thats coming from the activist contingent on the lift. All on the leist not tot orient. Its very much on right as well. Talk about ill liberalism of the right, particular through alt right, a White Nationalist group that has gotten some attention. Like the radical left, small in number but loud, vocal, and has had huge effect in the realm of social media primarily and harassing people and making it unpleasant to be online. You say that intersectionallity is the operating system of the modern left. What does that mean. Its a term that comes to us from sociology. Kind in the late 1980s. It was used by socialologists to describe how. I you are person of color, historically you would have experienced racism. I youre a woman, sectionism, and so on. But if youre a black woman you have multiple sources of oppression working against you. So that theory makes total sense to me. But in intersectional practice and activism, your supposed to give the most oppressed person in the activist circumstance the most authority and most defer residence, only they can be the experts on sources of oexpression activity. So tart get to the thorn where when does this make me the most opressed important . What about these . Its also lent itself toward i think it increasingly fragile Health Activism on campus it because i see young beam who are exaggerating the extent of their ptsd. When i talk to their professors and they say everyone in miss classroom says theyre a survivor of trauma. Its doubtful but theyre saying that because having ptsd gives you authority as an activist. So its incentivizing people see themselves as mentally unwell which is a bad thing. How did be get here . Its a difficult question. Were talk but broad social and culture change over a long period of time so theres no easy answer i. Think that the changing regime o. Norms of Safety Culture in schools and in parenting have probably led to a generation that through no fault of its own is a little more coddled then the previous generation, less resilient and im not blaming young people its our schools have changed dramatically. If we wet back to 1970s use not find a Police Officer in a Single School in me. Todays there are Motor Vehicles in half of all public high schools. Schools are actually very safe. The headlines to the contrary are misleading. Schools have the safest place for kids and crime has fallen dramatically. Young people are less at risk of kidnapping than ever about but you would get the ideaom going through school, from seeing parents arrested for letting kid play by themselves, those kind of things you get the idea that it is dangerous, and so the purpose of school is to protect me. Right . To make me feel safe. And then when safety gets stretched to include emotional safety as well, i think thats when you start to see this tide against words that wound or words that hurt. I need to be protect from that, the same way the school is responsible for my physical wellbeing. Is this a in your view a good trend or not . I think its very concerning, and i am critical of the right also well and i dont want to be causing too much alarm. Dont thing its a generational problem so much that people are talking beaut small subset of a as radical fringe but haven an a poisonous effect or or social discussion and culture. Its miserable to be online. Were seeing young adult novel authors are canceling bangs because theyre young sensitivity readers saying you cant say that. Thats cultural appropriation. A lot of conversations being closed off just because a small number of militant radical people on the political extremes are saying so, and i think that is bad. You give as an example in your book panic attack, the movie, the documentary the movie boys dont cry. Yes. What happened . They invited at reed college a progressive liberal arts college in ported, invited kimberly pierce the director of that really groundbreaking film at exposed american audiences to what its like to be a trans gender person. A sympathetic portrayal of a trans gender person the activists at the college, they shut down the event and wouldnt let kimberly pierce speak. Put up signs saying expletives at her, vial thing. They hated her . She cast hilary swank in it and she is not a trans person son, having cast this vie this violent its intersectionallate bus only a trans person should be playing a trans role so they hated for authorize that which is selfdefeating. Wouldnt have been as a big film without hilary swank. Thats an example of the at each others throat and selfdefeating tactic that some of these activists are embracing because of the influence of intersectionallity. Charles murray invite to middle bury college, he and the professor who invited him both injured. Right. Literally attacked. They were physically assaulted by protesters who thought it was so important to stop what was supposed to be a debate. Going to be a debate between murrays perspective and a left of Center Perspective but they dont want that to happen. When he interview for the book i said dont you think you make Charles Murray or whoever it look more sympathetic if youre shouting them down and using violence gem them . Youre driving people toward them and they say, we are about safety. We are keeping the marginalized anymore our Community Safe from the harm of Charles Murrays words and views. So if he ais allow to he speak with he contributed to he emotional or mental up rest of people we care about is a really different idea i think about how safety works, so much its at the root of this. How small are these altright and tifa groups. Theyre extremely small. Were talking about at many of these events, dozens of people, maybe hundreds or thousands nationwide. And theyre the feed each other because they the far right shows up and then the far left shows up and then they throw things at each other. He media shows onbecause. You dont wasnt to the news is thing that happen so when these things happen you have to cover them. But the problem the challenge for the media is making them is contextualized them and not making these things seem like theyre happening more often than the actually are. But they are happening. There was violence in ported against a journalist, a expressive live right of center journalist who writes for the online who is also gay. Yes, and he is gay but because he is critical of antifas activity shades said he has no right to cover us and they beat him up when he tried to videotape what they were doing. And antifa rejects the idea that people who disagree with them should have right order the far slight have rights. Theyre symphmilk my ill liberal that i believe is caching on. Not their tactics but philosophy that my enemy shoots not have right because theyre my enemies. Do you see a solution and do you offer one in panic attack. I think the best thing to do on College Campuses is to just answer bad speech with more speech to say, no, i would like to hear someone i would like to hear Charles Murray talk, hear a disperspective when he event happen for the other students are a majority to just stand up and say, no, please stop are want the professors, the left of center professors to be able to talk to student about the robust history of free speech activism on the left and not feel like they are going their jobs going to be at risk if theyve say the wrong thing. Thats on administrators to recognize the rights of faculty and they dont have to take dont have to arrest students or throw them out of the campus. Theyve need to just make a safe space to be actually be able to express ideas counter to the students and have those people not suffer consequences for doing so. What are you politics. Im a libertarian so i have ideological beliefs but interesting the its sort of puts me in the center issue of some of this stuff because aisle sympathetic the goals progressive activist. Talk but black lives matter in the book. I agree with a lot of what they would like to accomplish. Think our criminal Justice System is flawed and has had a disparate impact on people of color. So, its from a position of occasionally whatnotting the left to succeed that im critiqueing their tactics and say this will turn people off or youre saying you need only the most woke, the mose radically progressive people, the good guys. Thats six people at the end of the day. Even you guys dont agree on that stuff. What attracted you to libertarianism . I kind of have a boring libertarian origin story. I grew up in a approximately house hold but my parents were libertarian. Where died you grow up. The detroit area. Pro business but socially liberal brad lie becking and i decide thats what i scam then i found reason magazine and i started reading reading and nowk that. Robby soave, the author of panic attack, young radical nets age of trump. Thank you for joining us on booktv. My pleasure, thank you
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