Why freedom of speech is good.

People who think the government should regulate speech and thought to protect people from unpleasant words and ideas don't understand the history of why the people who wrote the US constitution specifically included protection against government infringement on freedom of speech and freedom of religion. The founder's did that because they knew that when government regulates speech and thought, it inevitably leads to the government controlling speech and thought for political purposes - to maintain authoritarian control by restricting criticism of the government. And this is what we are seeing today when "political correctness" has become a tool used by the Democrats to silence political opposition.

People who think political correctness is good because it protects them from unpleasantness are becoming fewer and fewer as more and more of them become its victims rather than its wards.

Dave Rubin: Why I Left the Left.

Dave Rubin:
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I'm a married gay man so you might think that I appreciate government forcing a Christian Baker or photographer or florist to act against their religion in order to cater photograph or decorate my wedding, but you'd be wrong. A government that can force Christians to violate their conscience can force me to violate mine.

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Today's progressivism has become a full moral movement hurling charges of racism, bigotry, xenophobia, homophobia, Islamophobia, and a slew of other meaningless buzz words at anyone they disagree with. the Battle of ideas has been replaced by a battle of feelings and outrage has replaced honesty. Diversity reigns supreme as long as it's not that pesky diversity of thought. This isn't the recipe for a free society. It's a recipe for authoritarianism. For these reasons I can no longer call myself a progressive. I don't really call myself a Democrat either. I'm a classical liberal, a free thinker, and as much as I don't like to admit it, defending my liberal values has suddenly become a conservative position. So if you think people should be able to say what they think without being punished for it, that people should be judged by their behavior not their skin color, and that people should be able to live the way that they want to live without government interference, then there's not much left on the left for you.

01:47
Martin Luther King Junior's dream that his children would be judged by their character and not their skin color was a liberal idea but these days is not a progressive ideal. And what about religious freedom: the idea that no one else can tell you what you have to believe? Surely progressives still support that basic right. Well not so much.

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I'm pro-choice but a government that can force a group of Catholic nuns literally called the Little Sisters of the Poor to violate their faith and pay for abortion inducing birth control can force anyone to do anything. That's not progressive that's regressive.

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Progressives used to say, "I may disagree with what you say but I'll fight to the death for your right to say it." Not anymore. Banning speakers whose opinions you don't agree with from college campuses, that's not progressive. Prohibiting any words not approved of as politically correct, that's not progressive.

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This has led me to believe that much of the left is no longer progressive but regressive. This is one of the reasons I've spent so much time on my show talking about the regressive left.

Larry Elder: The war on poverty was a neutron bomb dropped on the black family. Fatherlessness is responsible for social problems not racism.

The war on poverty is a war on the black family. The social problems attributed to racism are actutally caused by fatherlessness caused by the welfare state.

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UPDATE: Here is the full interview if the clip below is not working

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Larry Elder
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The biggest burden that black people have in my opinion again is the percentage of blacks, 75% of them, that are raised without fathers. And that has every other social negative consequences connected to it: crime, not being able to compete economically in the country, being more likely to be arrested, that's the number one problem facing the black community. And when I hear people tell me about systemic racism or unconscious racism I always say give me an example and almost nobody can do it.

Dave Rubin
6:35
So the family stuff. I'll follow your logic there. Family stuff. What can actually be done about that?

Larry Elder
06:44
Reverse to welfare state. In 1890 - 1900 you look at census reports a black kid believe it or not was slightly more likely to be born to a nuclear intact family than a white kid. Even during slavery a black kid was more likely to be born under a roof with his biological mother and biological father than today. What happened is we launched this so-called war on poverty in the 60s. Where, literally, Lyndon Johnson sent people knocking on doors, and I lived in the 60s, and people knocked on doors apprising women of the availability the welfare provided there was no man in the house. And we went from 25% of blacks being born outside of wedlock and 65 to 75 percent right now. And you look at how much money that we spent on welfare and the lines are parallel. It was a neutron bomb dropped on this country not just in the black community but on people in general. At one time only about 5% of whites were born outside of wedlock now 25% of whites are born outside of wedlock. I was in college in 1970 and there was a report called the Moynihan Report: The Negro Family, a Case for National Action, is written by liberal by a man who became a Democratic senator for the from New York. And at the time 25% of black kids were born outside of wedlock. He said my god this number is is horrific if we don't do something about it, it could get even higher. Well fast forward: 25% of white kids are now born outside of wedlock. It is the number one problem in this country and what we've done in my opinion is we economically incentivize women to marry the government we've allowed men to abandon their financial and more responsibility and now we have this.