“We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled,” the banker said. “It’s a new dawn.” We see it rather as dusk — and darkness will prevail if not just our schools, where students learn lifelong values, but each of us as a human being does not make an effort to see and respect our differences while acknowledging our common humanity.
“If a person cannot walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm,” Natan Sharansky wrote, “then that person is living in a fear society, not a free society.”
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