Kmele Foster
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
When did the whole idea of safe spaces start?
I don't know, 20 years ago.
The whole idea at the core of that is that certain speech was so harmful that we had to cut ourselves off from it.
Then it was speech is violence.
Then it was Trump is Hitler.
Then it was I'm a genocider because I think men can't be women.
I mean, this is how we got here.
And the only thing that will solve it is more is more speech.
And, you know, I'm
I always do my best to be respectful.
I will not kind of fall prey to the same sorts of rhetoric, but I will not not speak the truth.
And I just the only thing that protects my free speech is yours and vice versa.
And so the answer cannot be the the answer cannot be that we stop speaking because then the lunatics win.
I'm 100% with you.
I'm 100% with you.
Look, I think it's a stupid joke.
I think it's really unfortunate that the jokes and quite frankly, the bullets only go in one direction right now.
You know, it used to be Saturday Night Live made fun of everybody.
all politicians, you know, they made fun of everybody.
It's, it doesn't work that way anymore.