Sarah Haider

Definitely. Well, it was less of leaving the religion, which generally just left me with a sense of skepticism of religion. what I know and feeling very passionate about open discourse, civil liberties, freedom of speech and thought issues in general, because that was, I often thought about, you know, when I was young, what would have happened if I had just been raised in Pakistan?

Definitely. Well, it was less of leaving the religion, which generally just left me with a sense of skepticism of religion. what I know and feeling very passionate about open discourse, civil liberties, freedom of speech and thought issues in general, because that was, I often thought about, you know, when I was young, what would have happened if I had just been raised in Pakistan?

Definitely. Well, it was less of leaving the religion, which generally just left me with a sense of skepticism of religion. what I know and feeling very passionate about open discourse, civil liberties, freedom of speech and thought issues in general, because that was, I often thought about, you know, when I was young, what would have happened if I had just been raised in Pakistan?

What if my parents had never left and come to the United States? Would I have stayed religious for, you know, maybe forever? Maybe I would have never really left. Maybe I wouldn't have had the exposure to contradictory, like, viewpoints and perspectives. And maybe it might have been difficult for me to question. And I might have not come to those conclusions at the age that I did.

What if my parents had never left and come to the United States? Would I have stayed religious for, you know, maybe forever? Maybe I would have never really left. Maybe I wouldn't have had the exposure to contradictory, like, viewpoints and perspectives. And maybe it might have been difficult for me to question. And I might have not come to those conclusions at the age that I did.

What if my parents had never left and come to the United States? Would I have stayed religious for, you know, maybe forever? Maybe I would have never really left. Maybe I wouldn't have had the exposure to contradictory, like, viewpoints and perspectives. And maybe it might have been difficult for me to question. And I might have not come to those conclusions at the age that I did.

And so I value... what we have here. And I think of it from the perspective of an immigrant, which is that until I got my citizenship, which was kind of late in the game for me, I had always thought about the fact that I could be leaving, that this might not have been my permanent home.

And so I value... what we have here. And I think of it from the perspective of an immigrant, which is that until I got my citizenship, which was kind of late in the game for me, I had always thought about the fact that I could be leaving, that this might not have been my permanent home.

And so I value... what we have here. And I think of it from the perspective of an immigrant, which is that until I got my citizenship, which was kind of late in the game for me, I had always thought about the fact that I could be leaving, that this might not have been my permanent home.

So I held all these things that we have in the United States, the Western world more broadly, but I think in particular here, and I just cherish them so much. And I, you know, hold them as like these precious things that can be taken away from me at any moment. I just haven't shed that sense.

So I held all these things that we have in the United States, the Western world more broadly, but I think in particular here, and I just cherish them so much. And I, you know, hold them as like these precious things that can be taken away from me at any moment. I just haven't shed that sense.

So I held all these things that we have in the United States, the Western world more broadly, but I think in particular here, and I just cherish them so much. And I, you know, hold them as like these precious things that can be taken away from me at any moment. I just haven't shed that sense.

And I think that that's sort of the broad understanding that kind of anxiety that fuels the things that I tend to focus on now.

And I think that that's sort of the broad understanding that kind of anxiety that fuels the things that I tend to focus on now.

And I think that that's sort of the broad understanding that kind of anxiety that fuels the things that I tend to focus on now.

Like, I mean, it's cliche to talk about, but like cancel culture in general, you know, that kind of intolerance towards upsetting viewpoints, censorship on the internet, even for good reasons. I don't know how much the left cares as much about, I think they have a different perception on freedom of speech than they used to, on censorship than they used to.

Like, I mean, it's cliche to talk about, but like cancel culture in general, you know, that kind of intolerance towards upsetting viewpoints, censorship on the internet, even for good reasons. I don't know how much the left cares as much about, I think they have a different perception on freedom of speech than they used to, on censorship than they used to.

Like, I mean, it's cliche to talk about, but like cancel culture in general, you know, that kind of intolerance towards upsetting viewpoints, censorship on the internet, even for good reasons. I don't know how much the left cares as much about, I think they have a different perception on freedom of speech than they used to, on censorship than they used to.

So that led to a rift between me and other people I knew around me and then the culture at large.

So that led to a rift between me and other people I knew around me and then the culture at large.