Konstantin Kisin: This is one of the biggest problems with the position that we now find ourselves in, which is that anyone who in any way challenges the radical progressive leftist narrative in any way is automatically right-wing.
A lot of these narratives, whether it's intersectionality or these structures of oppression, all this stuff, they don't actually have any logical or reasonable underpinning. And so the only way you can defend them, the only way you can defend them is by shutting down people who don't agree with you Because if you have a reasonable rational argument, their views crumble like a house of cards, because they're not built on anything. They're built on fallacious logic and just assertions without any basis in fact.
So that's why I think now the left, the radical left, not all of the left, but the radical left, have come to this place where they have to shut down and label and smear anyone who doesn't agree with them, because their ideas are not based on anything.
But it boggles my mind that we are now in a position, John, that freedom of speech, which is a fundamental cornerstone of Western civilization, has become a conservative value. That is an absolutely insane position to me as someone who came from a society where freedom of speech did not exist.
And when I came here, my parents essentially sacrificed their life savings to get me here, right? They didn't move over. They sent me to boarding school here with the only money that they had. The reason they did that is so that I could be in a free society. And to think that that happened and now this fundamental principle of this country is a marginal issue that supposedly is right-wing at best, it boggles the mind.
We had Lionel Shriver on my YouTube show called Triggernometry recently, and one of the points that she made is the word racist has been used so much and so inappropriately. That is why we now use terms like white supremacist, because being a racist is no longer enough. You have to take it up a notch, and that's why the word of white supremacy has come back. The point that she made, which I thought was brilliant, was that in her childhood, white supremacists were people that if you walked up to them and you said, are you a white supremacist? they'd be like, "hell yeah," right? That was what a white supremacist looked like. Now it's these people who are undercover and pretend they're not, apparently, this is what we're being told.
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