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:
2:10
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.
2:56
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 the Battle of ideas has been replaced by a battle of feelings and outrage has replaced honesty.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.
2:36
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.
0:42
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.
1:11
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.
