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We simply cease to be free when we shut down opinions the loudest of us (the ones who run media) don’t like. I keep telling my older kids how important the old quote is: “I don’t agree with what you say, but I will defend to my death you’re right to say it.” AMERICA USED TO BELIEVE THAT.

Let your enemies speak. It will either show how wrong they are, or allow you to better hone your argument.

If you are on the left, most likely you sucked up your deepest most heartfelt opinions from MAINSTREAM MEDIA (from Al Gore’s movies to CNN to books by academia etc). That means you didn’t ponder all sides before you formed your deepest opinions. So you could use some opposition arguments to hone your own educated opinion.. Expose yourself to the other side. Play chess with your opinion: take your policy goals a few steps ahead.

If you make eating a chicken murder, how will you enforce this? Where will the money come from? Where will poor people get enough vitamin B and cheap protein? How will humans be affected if they can’t eat birds, and will this create so many lawbreakers that will stop caring about other laws? Huh? You didn't think about that.

I remember back in the days before internet, at my university there were the “periodical stacks.” Every kind of newspaper from all over the world had a shelf in this huge part of the library. Fascinating to walk through it and check them out. Until the day I found, in K, the one lone copy of the Klansman. Never been exposed to their thoughts before, grown up in a Holocaust surviving Jewish family. Of course I picked it up and started to read.

The first article was about not allowing your children to go to college, where they would mix with the blacks and Jews. It had an accompanying drawing of a racist caracature of each of the two groups, so hideous. I couldn’t read on. My hands itched to rip it up and I didn’t care how much trouble I’d get into. My family would be proud of me for ripping it. I was about to shred it right there. What stopped me is why it was placed there. There were no piles of issues, just that one ragged paper. It was put there so college students could SEE IT. The writing and drawing were infantile and the thoughts expressed were just mean and lacking in coherency of thought. It was pure and simply an actual racist creed.

It hurt the KKK more by leaving it alone on the shelf to be seen rather than ripping it up.

I wish every young leftist alive now could understand that lesson.