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"I grew up in a far-left college town, and I've known so many young people who were free spirits, who were nonconformists..."

"... who were determined to be themselves no matter what anyone else said, who had a passion for noisy music and experimental art, who listened to the color of their dreams . . . And back then, it didn't seem incongruous that they were mostly on the left. Today, I see so many people on the left sternly admonishing a 16-year-old for having the wrong smile in the wrong place at the wrong time. That's a prissy attitude which seems like the antithesis of so many lefties I've known. How can you be a young person who identifies as left/liberal and take that attitude? I've always had my differences with the left, but for most of my life I at least would have admitted that hey, a lot of them are cool people, interesting people, people who are worth talking to, especially if you don't share their politics. And that has no resemblance to some of the self-appointed arbiters of propriety we've been seeing on social media. I want to say to some of these people joining virtual lynch mobs based on the latest viral video: Is that really who you are? Or are you too afraid to say what you really think? Or have you forgotten what you really think because you're more focused on . . . looking just right?"

Writes my son John (at his blog).

That reminds me of something I wrote back in 2011: "When did the left turn against free speech?"

Remember when lefties were all about free speech? When did that change? Why did that change? Perhaps the answer is: Free speech was only ever a means to an end. When they got their free speech, made their arguments, and failed to win over the American people, and when in fact the speech from their opponents seemed too successful, they switched to the repression of speech, because the end was never freedom.

It's convenient when artistic people can be perceived as left wing — which works when the left is big on free speech — but as I said in 2005:

To be a great artist is inherently right wing. A great artist like Dylan or Picasso may have some superficial, naive, lefty things to say, but underneath, where it counts, there is a strong individual, taking responsibility for his place in the world and focusing on that.

So what were John's artistic and seemingly left-wing friends (here in our "far-left college town"? And what would they have been if they'd had to choose (if the politics that felt comfortable constrained their artistic expression)? Would they have given up politics? Would they (like, say, David Mamet) skew right? Or would they never have developed their artistic ways in the first place?

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