 Yes, a letter was published today. A letter called, it was titled, A Letter on Justice and Open Debate. And it's a letter written by a bunch of leftists, mostly leftists, not all leftists. I'll give you some names afterwards. The letter basically says, first paragraph says, you know, yeah, we've got a real moment of trial. There's powerful protests for racial and social justice. They're leading to an opening demand for police reform, why it costs for great equality, inclusion across society, higher education, da-da-dum, da-da-dum, so, you know, kind of saying, look, we agree with the cause, and we don't like Donald Trump, right? So that's paragraph one of one. Paragraph number two is basically, look, it's really, really, really important though to have a free exchange of ideas. And we need to have this free exchange of ideas, and it's unacceptable to have this cancel culture where people are penalized for having ideas that are different from this, when they give examples, editors being fired for controversial pieces, books are withdrawn, for authenticity, journalists are bought from writing on certain topics, professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class, a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic. Each one of these is a real occurrence. So they go through all the examples of people being fired and people being harassed and people being demoted and destroyed because, right, because of their points of view. And they say, this stifling atmosphere will ultimately harm the most vital causes of our time. The restriction on debate, whether by repressive government or an intolerant society, invariably hurts those who lack power and makes everyone less capable of democratic participation. So a little appeal to altruism, you know, we don't want to defend everybody's right to speak, just the power less, I guess. The way to defeat bad ideas, and this is good, is by exposure, argument and persuasion, not by trying to silence or wish them away. We refuse any false choice between justice and freedom, which cannot exist without each other. As writers, we need a culture that leaves us room for experimentation, risk-taking and even mistakes. We need to preserve the possibility of good faith, disagreement without dire professional consequences. If we won't defend the very thing on which our work depends, we shouldn't expect the public or state to defend it for us. So, you know, a decent letter. The beginning, yeah, a little too much of the social justice stuff, but the middle paragraph and the final paragraph, good stuff on freedom of speech, basically. And the recognition that even though freedom of speech is not violated technically because it's not the government doing it, an intolerant society, a society of cancelling, a society of firing people, a society of silencing people even when it's done voluntarily, is wrong, harmful, destructive, and that's good. It's good that they recognize that. And it's a list of impressive people, so it's good to know that they are people of the left. Who stand by these words? That all is not lost, that there are people on the left who are still advocates of free speech, even if they have bad ideas on everything else. Because as long as they're advocates of free speech, we can have a discussion, we can have a debate. They're not silencing. All right, I've had it with this racist, so I'm gonna silence him once I get everybody. Let me just get rid of him. And then we can go on. So it's interesting. So mostly leftist, at least one libertarian, Deidre McCluskey from the University of Illinois, Chicago, signed this, at least one conservative, John McCorda, who is a black conservative from Columbia University, he's a very thoughtful guy, signed this, and some cultural figures, I don't know what the politics of a Winston-Marcellus signed it, but then shockingly, and this is why I wouldn't have signed it. I mean, there are other things here that I would have prevented. I would have signed it for other reasons, because it's super social justice, but shockingly, one of the people who signed this is Noam Chomsky. Now, Noam Chomsky is an apologist for genocide. He is an apologist for communism, for popart, for the Khmer Rouge. He holds one of the most evil, disgusting philosophies that exist. He is anti-America, he's anti-West, he is anti-Reason, he's viciously anti-capitalism. I just have to say, I would never sign a letter if Noam Chomsky was signing it too. I don't care what the topic was, I don't care what the benefits of it. He is a despicable human being, with whom I would not wanna be on the same stage and would not wanna be on the same document, as implying that we respect each other in any kind of way. Leonardo says, why is Chomsky evil when he's so pro-free speech? You can be supposedly pro-free speech, although I doubt that in regimes that Chomsky has supported from Chavez in Venezuela to Popart in Cambodia, there was no free speech, and he supported those regimes. So his support of free speech is completely two-faced, it is not real, it is not authentic. He doesn't like, I think he doesn't like the focus on race that the New Left has. I think that's his problem. I don't think he's pro-free speech, I don't think he believes in free speech. Throughout his career, he hasn't believed in free speech. So, no, I don't believe his signature on this. It means nothing, he is beneath contempt, beneath contempt. Let me give you some other people who signed this. And Applebaum, Margaret Atwood, both known leftists, Roger Bookworth is from Bard University, also on the left, I assume most of these. David Brooks, who's considered a conservative, or at some point, a neoconservative, signed this. Let's see, Nicholas Christakis from Yale University. Let's see, who else? Who else you might know? Richard Ford from Stanford Law School. David Farm, another kind of conservative. Francis Fukuyama, who's kind of on the left. Malcolm Gladwell, the famous author signed this, good for him. Again, I wouldn't have signed it. Jonathan Haight, NYU Stern, who's kind of a centrist, viewing to the left. These are better people. You know, some of them, not all of them, but some of them are better people. Suddenly, Jonathan Haight is one of the better leftists, old-style liberals. Steven Pinker signed it. Let's see, as I said, Deira McCloskey. She's completely, it's weird that she's there because she's a real libertarian. Let's see, yeah, a bunch of people you'd probably recognize from the news of a nah, Jonathan Rausch, who's from the Atlantic Magazine and the Brookings Institute. Again, one of the more rational left. Oh, J.K. Rawlins signed it. J.K. Rawlins, who has been, there's been an attempt to cancel J.K. Rawlins for a position on Transgender. Solomon Rushti, a real hero, in my view, who stood up to the Islamists, and there was a famous fatwa against him, signed it. And let's see. So anyway, an interesting Gloria Steinem, the feminist. Kathy Young, again, more of a libertarian. Michael Walzer, Michael Walzer is a just-worth theory professor. He teaches just-worth theory. I think at West Point, I hate just-worth theory, but he signed this to his credit and Matthew, Emily Jaffee, Fareed Zakaria, who's a commentator on the news, and so on. So good for them. It's good to know that people are willing to sign it, even though most of them I disagree vehemently on pretty much everything, but it's good to see. We saw a couple of years ago or three years ago when there was all the stuff on campuses, the attempt to silence people on campuses. There was a letter, similar letter, signed by mostly leftist professors around free speech. I actually thought it was a little better than this one. So once in a while, you see something like this. The question is, would they have written the letter if the only people being canceled were, you know, from the right? So all these people are signing a letter against having leftist cancel or the leftist for the most part, because most of the canceling that's going on right now is of leftist by leftist. So I'm a little skeptical of whether they would be defending Charles Murray or somebody like that, speaking on campuses. It's much easier to defend J.K. Rollins, who is one of them, if you will. Okay. 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