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"End of the year Twitter confession: Until recently, I was a conservative. I rolled my eyes at almost all talk of ongoing oppression, systemic racism, sexism and misogyny, microagressions, and any hint that speech could = violence. I considered myself a classical liberal

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"Since meeting the students of @WabashCollege and the MXI, I simply can't be a 'classical liberal' any more. There simply isn't a level playing field, not in terms of race, educational opportunities, economic resources, etc. To act like there is is cruel and self-serving.

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"To end the confession, perhaps too honestly: Only 5 years ago I might have said 'all lives matter'; 'not all men'; 'everything is up for debate'; 'I'm a free speech absolutist'; 'students need to be prepared for the real world'. Now I say 'black lives matter'; 'I believe women'; 'I don't get to debate the existence of others'; 'free speech absolutism benefits the already powerful'; 'marginalised students have already seen more of the real world than I ever will'. That's my paradigm shift."

-- Matthew A. Sears, 2017-12-29 [bold emphasis added -- follow link to whole thread to see how he got from one paradigm to the other]