“The greatest danger confronting America today is not coming from abroad, but it’s domestic,” Prager told Bila. “And it’s specifically related to liberty, and specifically free speech. This is the first time in American history — we’ve had terrible crises — a civil war and the depression and much more. But we have never faced the danger to free speech like we are now. Do you know there is a poll just released, reported last week, that about half of millennials and in fact almost half of Americans believe that the First Amendment should be changed, that there should be a ban on hate speech, which means no free speech, because what you consider hate speech I may not consider and vice-versa.”
“When I was a kid, I’ll never forget this,” continued Prager, “Nazis applied to march in the Jewish neighborhood of Skokie, Illinois, ‘cause there were a lot of holocaust survivors there, and it was a particularly cruel thing obviously, swastikas in front of Holocaust survivors. Jewish organizations, liberal organizations, conservative organizations were almost unanimous in saying even the Nazis have a right to demonstrate in a Jewish holocaust survivor neighborhood because in America there is something called free speech, and it’s sacrosanct. It is being demolished on our campuses. It’s going from campuses outside of campuses, and this movie is a wake-up call.”
After several alarming clips of attacks on free speech from the documentary were shown, Bila commented: “Everyone talks about the importance of diversity, but diversity of thought and the importance of that is getting lost.”
“Entirely. I mean, diversity, all other diversities are ephemeral,” said Prager. “They’re superficial. Who cares what color you are in? In this regard, I’m a completely traditional liberal. Your color means nothing. God created the human being. We have no idea if that first human, whether you believe in the story or not, the whole point was, has no color. We’re all human beings. We’re all children of God. That diversity is irrelevant.”
“The diversity of ideas is what makes a society function.”
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Mugabe was right
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