“I was there growing up at the time when they let the KKK march down the street. And what was the issue? It was a freedom of speech issue. They're thumbing their nose at us, but you know what? It's better to have an America where these idiots get to walk down the street and spout their hate. That's the world I grew up in — a liberal, democratically leaning Chicago that was about tolerance and free speech. Not shut it down because it's unpleasant. The lack of tolerance of ideas and other points of view is the great Achilles' heel of the social justice warrior movement.”
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