Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“In 2008, I attended a debate-ish discussion about violence and the left hosted by the New York Public Library. The panelists were not conservatives complaining about leftist violence on college campuses or the left’s longstanding habit of making excuses for practitioners of political violence ranging from Joseph Stalin to Pol Pot. Rather, the panelists were two men of the left …. I was a little bit surprised to hear [Slavoj] Zizek make a relatively forthright case for the legitimacy of political violence when it is carried out by the right sort of people — people who more or less agree with Slavoj Zizek, of course — while he maintained reservations about its strategic value. In the audience, listening to that reasonably safe and well-looked-after academic theorize about the moral urgency of violence, were Salman Rushdie and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, seated next to each other.” (12/16/24)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics-political-violence-140000266.html