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" Everyone that we disagree with is a racist and a homophobe and Islamophobe and a bigot. It's just silly. It's lazy thinking, and I think it gets us nowhere. "
Dave Rubin
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Everyone
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" Seriously, we all need to get over being offended every time someone says something you don't agree with. Guess what? That's life. And I'd rather have that life any day than only hear from people who agree with me. "
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" Somehow, defending my liberal values of free speech, liberty, and rights of the individual has become a conservative position. "
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" Sadly, the Left is no longer liberal at all, for it has traded in individualism for collectivism, thus placing us into an oppression Olympics where victimhood is a virtue. This post-modernism - this cultural Marxism or whatever you want to call it - can only destroy; it cannot create. "
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" Whatever differences we have, tolerating others' opinions is a prerequisite to a functioning and free society. "
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" I firmly believe in individual liberty more than anything else. And that you have to live the life you want for yourself. "
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" I believe the regressive Left - the group of people who use illiberal tactics to silence those defending liberal principles - to be the Left's version of the Tea Party. "
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" The Right, much more than the Left, believes in the notion of live and let live, and that is the true definition of tolerance. "
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" It's not always about winning. If you can, really, just show people - If they're being awful, be less awful. "
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" Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society. "
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" You are the one who makes the choices that control your fate. "
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" I think the media has portrayed conservatives as these cold, heartless people who want poor people to die and let half the population starve and all this. They've done that so effectively because they've owned the narrative for so long. "
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" Speaking out, sharing what you think, and expressing yourself - regardless of sexuality or anything else - is the most important thing you can do as a man, as a human. "
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" I was closeted into my mid-twenties and even into my late twenties. It screwed up my relationships; it screwed up things with my family that I've since repaired. "
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" It really is this: you are either for liberty, you're for freedom, and you're for living how you want to live without infringing and impugning on anyone else's rights, or you want the state to deal with everything. "
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" Just by existing as men, we are automatically guilty of everything in some people's minds. And, on top of that, we've created a situation in the media where men are only allowed to talk about politics and sport. "
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" The thing is, Twitter made me - from silly posts about 'Star Wars,' I got fans. "
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" The terms 'progressive' and 'liberal' have virtually nothing to do with each other anymore. And if you are a classical liberal, you certainly aren't a leftist. "
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" I think virtually everyone wants to do good and be good and be decent to each other and pursue something that is valuable to them and meaningful. "
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" We voted for Obama on rhetoric of 'hope and change.' We voted for him because of some idea that he was beyond politics and certainly beyond partisanship. "
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" You are born free. I was born free. The government can take your freedom away, but it did not give you your freedom. It was your human right. The key part of that is you are free first. "
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