Jason Nichols: Ad Hominem Attacks Are the Area of Right Wing Extremists; We on the Left Have Real Debates

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CARLSON: "Anyone who’s paying attention knows he has a point. The sciences are still strong but the liberal arts are increasingly a joke, a bad joke that’s bankrupting the country, when washing the kids to hate the values that built the United States. Gender neutral pronouns, bias response teams, riots against conservative speakers, college increasingly resembled the rather than academies of learning. Jason Nichols is professor of American studies at university of Maryland. We could have a subjective debate about the climate on campus but instead of doing that, why don’t we have a quiz here? I want you to be as honestly as you could possibly be. Tell me what would happen if I said this in humanities class at the university of Maryland. I believe marriage is a union between a man and a woman, it’s a sacred union, god is in the mix. What would happen if I put that on the placard?"

NICHOLS: "It would generate a discussion. We would have an open exchange of ideas and people with talk about their different views. What we have right now —"