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Let's Challenge Ourselves
00:02:18
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| When I went to Berkeley, which there was a riot last week, and I was supposed to go with Charlie Kirk, and I asked him over the summer, I said, let's do another university. | |
| It was so fun, you know? | |
| And it was fun because you had people challenging us. | |
| To be a vibrant society, we must be able to be challenged. | |
| We've got to challenge ourselves. | |
| And as the great Andrew Doyle says, we must challenge our certainties. | |
| We must, because we must, we can't have a firm foundational belief system that's unchallenged. | |
| Then it'll be static. | |
| I mean, to continue to be creative, to continue to innovate, to continue to be a vibrant culture, we must allow these challenges. | |
| So I said, Charlie, let's go. | |
| Let me, I'm going to go to the craziest place. | |
| And he said, well, let's go to Berkeley. | |
| And so we went. | |
| I mean, he was murdered in front of his children. | |
| And I'm not quite sure how to filter that. | |
| There seems to be such a dis-ease in our culture and a lack of the most basic human dignity, compassion for this man and what happened after. | |
| It exposed so much ugliness in our culture that I don't think it's always been there. | |
| I think we're at a point where somehow that is accepted by a large group of the populace. | |
| So I went alone after his murder and I went with his mentor, Frank Turek, and there was a group of people at Berkeley who rioted outside and set off tear gas and devices that sounded like gunfire, | |
| threw things, spit at people, and the police and the Berkeley, the University of Cal Berkeley, to their great shame, did not prevent those people from interfering. | |
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Fall Into Censorship Abyss
00:00:41
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| And I include the Berkeley police in that they did not allow a corridor to get everybody in there. | |
| And that's very shameful because that is 1964. | |
| That was the free speech movement and universities. | |
| And it wasn't for just one side. | |
| It was all sides. | |
| So for them to fall so deeply off that precipice against and to fall into an abyss of censorship is shameful and unfortunate. | |
| But it exposes where we're at, at least. | |
| And I think I'd rather have it out in the open. | |