I've never really cared about how people perceive my political affiliation.

I would say that I am, you know, pretty liberal in the sense that I believe in everyone's

right to live as they please for the most part.

I am a very, you know, Bill of Rights person, First Amendment,

no search and seizure, like all of that stuff is pretty much where I stand.

So there was a point where the left abandoned those ideals

and the right kind of swooped in and picked them up. Now the fact of the

matter is it doesn't matter what your political view is those are the only reasonable ideals.

We have to support freedom of speech. We have to support the freedom to worship, the freedom to

assemble, freedom to defend yourself,

to have your home be your own and not subject to unlawful government search.

This is how we can live in a reasonable way with each other, and this is how we can live in a

reasonable way with people we don't agree with.

Welcome to the unspeakable podcast. I'm your host, Megan Down. My guest this week is Libby Emmons.

Libby now works mainly as a journalist, writing articles about ideological divides in culture and politics for places like

Quillette, the Federalist, and The Spectator. She's also the editor of the center-right Canadian

news magazine, The Post-Millennial. But before she entered the sphere of public debate about the news,

she was in the theater world. Specifically, she was in a radical feminist theater collective

in New York. But when she published an article, a very dry academic article, she says, about

transhumanism that made a conceptual comparison with transgenderism, the theater community

deemed her a moral threat, and she was exiled from that world.

Now, on the surface, the story could be seen as yet another casualty of so-called cancel culture.

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