The Rise Of The Illiberal Left, with Christina Hoff Sommers, Desh Amila, and Curt Jaimungal | Ep. 137

The Megyn Kelly Show

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Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Megyn Kelly is joined by Christina Hoff Sommers, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Desh Amila and Curt Jaimungal, the filmmakers behind the documentary "Better Left Unsaid," to talk about the rise of the illiberal left, how the illiberal left changed feminism, our culture of therapy and safetyism, self-censorship, "fainting couch feminism," fighting back against cultural censorship in Big Tech and on college campuses, how the tolerant left and tolerant right can unite, and more. Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: Twitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShow Instagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShow Facebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly show, your home for Open, Honest, and Provocative Conversations.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly show.
0:15.3	Oh, we have a great show for you today.
0:16.8	I'm really excited about the discussion you're about to hear.
0:19.2	We're going to talk about the rise of the illiberal left, how it happened, what it looks
0:24.0	like, and what we can do to stop it.
0:27.7	I think all of our guests today are of the left, at least two out of three.
0:32.5	I asked two out of three.
0:34.3	And so these are people who are left leaning, who are objecting to the craziness that's
0:40.7	taken over our country and the Democratic Party and our cultural institutions.
0:46.4	And so we're going to get into how we got here and exactly how it's manifested first
0:51.8	with Christina Hoff Summers, who I've long admired.
0:54.4	She's a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, which is a conservative think tank,
0:59.2	but she's a Democrat.
1:00.3	But she calls herself a feminist, but she says she's a freedom feminist.
1:03.8	She's an equity feminist, meaning she's not against men and she's not about infantilizing
1:09.1	women.
1:10.1	So you'll hear from her first and we're going to get into Simone Biles.
1:13.2	That's how we'll kick it off.
1:14.2	I'll have little talking points for you on that.
1:16.5	And then we're going to be joined by two guys who have just put out a film not long ago
1:19.7	called Better Left Unset.
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