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The "interesting, well-spoken, articulate" folks have no issue speaking at college campuses. Playing the "good people on many sides" card ignores who these people are that are being forced off of college campuses. Alan Greenspan could show up to give a talk and be well received; Richard Spencer is going to spark riots (for good reason).

Most issues have a gradient or contextual answers so I don't buy the argument that just because someone maybe wrong implying their opponents are necessarily correct.

The "pursuit of knowledge" predisposes that not all ideas are created equal.

That "fringe, extreme" element of the right holds the presidency of the United States; pretending they don't exist, or don't hold power is ridiculous in 2017.

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When you have riots over right-leaning moderates like Ben Shapiro, I think it's clear that there is a free-speech problem at universities in the US.

In which universe do you live in that Shapiro is a moderate?

Curious which views of Shapiro's do you believe are extreme? Are you a person who believes gender is merely a social construct whereby the genetics of a person hold no bearing on their attributes?

He's cited a solution to the divide between Isreal and Palenstine as being >"The Jews don't realize that expelling a hostile population is a commonly used and generally effective way of preventing violent entanglements...."

That's decently non-moderate if not extreme as far as that debate goes.

Nice strawman with the gender thing. The nature v nurture debate will continue but the fatalist "genetics trump all" sort of thinking is pretty solidly false. And the amount of bad stats in trying to apply population level trends to self selecting sub groups is just mindnumbing (ie the school of thought around woman tend to have these traits ergo the self selecting group that go into this field must also follow that distribution).

As for the specifics of current progressive politics, I think the pendulum has swung a bit too far in direction of needless specific taxonomy; however that's a better state of affairs than the prescriptive "a man is this; not that" sort of thinking that dominated previous generations.

As a bisexual man Im a bit biased though; I think the average American is way too hung up on tying sexuality and gender into their identities.

So short of not believing in a two state solution, with historical relevancy to back his belief, you've got nothing?

>I will never vote for Donald Trump because I stand with certain principles. I stand with small government and free markets and religious freedom and personal responsibility. Donald Trump stands against all of these things. He stands for Planned Parenthood and trade restrictions and targeting of political enemies and an anti-morality foreign policy and government domination of religion and nastiness toward women and tacit appeals to racism and unbounded personal power. I stand with the Constitution of theUnited States, and its embedded protection of my God-given rights through governmental checks and balances. Donald Trump does not. I stand with conservatism. Donald Trump stands against it. I stand with #NeverTrump. ---Ben Shapiro

FYI Scientific evidence does not support your belief on the side of nature vs nurture

In which universe do you live in that he isn't?

Or eminently reasonable people like Christina Hoff Sommers getting protested and boycotted. Something has jumped the shark

Re R.S.:

I feel like every time you say his name, he is getting more powerful.

Good piece on the Richard Spencers/Milos/white nationalists/white supremacists that came out of the woodwork recently:

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/11/lets-just-stop-writin...

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