Dave Rubin: evaluation

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…Is it hard to stay funny as you start to feel more morally important? I think I’m probably struggling with that a little bit, quite honestly, yeah. I’m talking about big things, I’m talking about important things and racism and free speech and all this stuff, but I can tell you this, when I go to universities and I talk to these kids, they want to laugh, they really do, and I’ve tried to bring back my stand up into that while we’re talking about some seriously heavy stuff. Because imagine being a 20-year-old kid right now and consistently told, “You can’t think what you think. ” And if you think differently you’re somehow racist or bigoted or prejudiced or any of this stuff. So they need any outlet and if we don’t provide it to them then people with worse intentions than us will. So in the 1960s much of the left, not all of it but much of it, they were big defenders of free speech. You had the Berkley Free Speech Movement, these days you have Berkeley possibly banning Ann Coulter or at least telling her she has to come on some other date when she can’t make it. Why has the left changed on the speech issue so much, to what do you ascribe that evolution?…

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