BULLDOG
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Couldn't agree more with your statements. I have many liberal friends from work, and I can say that there's no danger in listening to people with different views and beliefs. You don't have to agree with ANYTHING that they say, but listening to someone's views isn't fucking dangerous. It's actually beneficial because you'll eventually become more tolerant to the views of others. My best friend is a liberal and she's often trying to persuade me to be a liberal. While it doesn't work (and never will), it's made me become more tolerant to liberals and know why they think the way they do. However, that doesn't change the fact that I love to argue with them.Good grief....the Trump rally is that way --->
Anyhoo, while this is a stupid EO that will go nowhere, this is still a discussion worth having. I personally find it disgraceful that some controversial people are uninvited from campuses or not invited at all . I think liberals, especially the ones on campus, are failing badly at this. And make no mistake, it's not just conservatives that these sensitive little reactionary sissies are running out of town. Consider Richard Dawkins, or Bill Maher, or Salman Rushdie, or Sam Harris.
They shouldn't be going to universities to shield themselves from ideas that make them uncomfortable. Doing the opposite of this is precisely how we learn something new! As Dawkins has said, "What in bloody hell do they think universities are for?!"
Our country is at each others' throats because we spend more time arguing with each other than listening to different view points. Doesn't matter in the streets, but in places of learning -- like universities -- It's a problem to not listen to others and expand your understanding of the world around you and the people in it.
I get it now. You're supposed to invite people you are opposed to. Is that why you always go out of your way to make sure you have at least a couple MS13 members and a a representative from Louis Farrakhan at each of your dinner parties? Is that why Trump always invites somebody from Antifa to speak at his rallies?