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The Coddling Of The American Mind

If Books Could Kill

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What Are You Saying About Violence on the Left?

LZ Granderson: These books cast one kind of random anecdote as indicative of a larger culture. He says they're doing it exactly wrong because if you look at the incidents where left-wing protesters went too far, those incidents are almost unanimously denounced by the left. LZ: And then when you have these outbursts of right-wing violence, you have them celebrated by right-wing leaders. The authors talk about that briefly without acknowledging that what they're saying is that from the very top of the conservative political establishment is implicit endorsement of this violence.

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