Anna Kasparian

yeah you're a little bit naive i think i am because the truth is you know there are very few people who are sincere in wanting to protect free speech because as soon as there is speech that offends their sensibilities all of a sudden they're not in favor of protecting free speech uh so

Protecting speech matters the most when you are hearing speech you dislike.

Because you have to think about how wanting to censor people who are engaged in rhetoric you don't like is definitely going to come back around to you.

And, you know, as someone who has been on the left for most of my adult life, right, I remember thinking to myself...

For all the people on the left who are like hell-bent on engaging in censorship, do you guys understand history?

Do you know how this is going to work out for you if you keep engaging like this?

And so I just think that what's particularly gross about what's happening in this current moment is that the censorship has to do with speech that is critical of a foreign country.

That's right.

And that's unacceptable.

OK, it's unacceptable.

We are able to be as critical as we want of our own government, which should also be protected, obviously.

But the idea that the other thing I want to just quickly say, I know this is a little bit of a tangent, but I have to get this out.

Ahmed Ashara playing basketball with members of our military in the United States White House on U.S.

soil.

a so-called former al-Qaeda terrorist, visiting New York City for the UN General Assembly is such an insult to the American people.

Unacceptable.

So while you have the Mark Levins and people like him constantly defaming people as jihadists, Islamists, terrorists, hey, you got any word about Al-Shara cozying up to the Trump administration?

Are we okay with that?

Oh, he doesn't like Hezbollah.

Okay, so I guess he's our ally because he doesn't like Hezbollah.