At such times, old-fashioned liberal values like free speech and robust, open debate seem like tainted adjuncts of an oppressive system, and it’s still possible for radicals to believe that the ideas suppressed as hateful won’t be their own.

At such times, old-fashioned liberal values like free speech and robust, open debate seem like tainted adjuncts of an oppressive system, and it’s still possible for radicals to believe that the ideas suppressed as hateful won’t be their own.

—[#CancelColbert and the Return of the Anti-Liberal Left

The Nation](http://www.thenation.com/blog/179160/cancelcolbert-and-return-anti-liberal-left#)