This week our listener feedback is an embarrassment of riches.

Today we'll talk about liberal intolerance remarks from President Obama and

LaRetta Lynch and our tendency to lose nuance on social conservatism.

This is Sarah from the left and Beth from the right.

You're listening to Pantsuit politics.

No shouting, no insults, plenty of nuance.

Welcome to another episode of the briefcase.

Before we get started we wanted to say thank you.

You guys have started calling in with voicemails and it's so amazing to hear your voices and

we're going to play a couple of those in just a second.

And if you want to call in the number is 859-568-2330.

So give us a call and let us know what you're thinking.

The first listener voicemail that we're going to play for you comes from Debbie and she's

referencing an article in the New York Times entitled A Confession of Liberal Intolerance.

That article is a really interesting look at how academia perceives conservative ideology

and the writer talks about how when he posed the question is there some discrimination

against conservative and evangelical Christian ideas in academia he got responses that sort

of proved that thesis out one that stuck out to me with someone saying hey let's make

academia more inclusive by starting to hire idiots.

So it was a really aggressive response and the author noted that in a lot of disciplines

it's easier to find someone who professes to be Marxist instead of it's easier to find

a Marxist than a Republican.

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