Posted on 01/15/2022 6:39:30 AM PST by Twotone
Liel Leibovitz, a senior writer for Tablet Magazine and host of the Unorthodox podcast, told The Epoch Times that in the last few years he has found himself, “politically homeless,” falling out with his circle of people because he challenged their views.
Leibovitz is the author of the popular Tablet essay on this topic, “The Turn: When I saw the left give up everything I believe in, I changed politically. You can, too.”
“The turn is the moment when you kind of begin to understand, a little bit like that movie The Matrix, that everything you assumed was the very fabric of reality, it’s not just politics, it’s the entirety of existence, may be called into question,” Leibovitz told Jan Jekielek, host of EpochTV’s American Thought Leaders program.
“I grew up like so many people with this idea that if you were a good, decent human being, you are, of course, are on the left,” said Leibovitz. “And on the right, there were at best, people who only cared about money.”
Leibovitz said that in his circles he felt he couldn’t freely express himself and say things that are empirically true, “for example, that the notion that there are only two genders, which is a notion that is confirmed by literally the biological makeup of every cell in your body, is not only dangerous but now wrong.”
He began to realize that his allegiance to the left was misguided and that he did not agree with what they seemed to value or seemed to believe.
“Once you start asking yourself ‘wait a minute, what is it that you guys actually believe? What can I and can I not say?’
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“I grew up like so many people with this idea that if you were a good, decent human being, you are, of course, are on the left,” said Leibovitz. “And on the right, there were at best, people who only cared about money.”
and the current beleif
Yep, that’s my sister. “I’m a Democrat because Democrats caaaarrreee!!!!”
Welcome to reality.
Not you.
Liebovitz.
Any relation to Fawn Liebowitz?
BTTT
She was going to make a pot for me.
That minx!
“Any relation to Fawn Liebowitz?”
She’s dead Jim.
“Do you mind if we dance wit’ yo dates?”
“What are you majoring in?”
“Primitive cultures!”
(I’ll take “Movie scenes they can’t get away with today for $400”, Alex!)
Once you start asking yourself ‘wait a minute, what is it that you guys actually believe?
Pelosi made 50 million of Wall Street last year opened a few eyes about people on the right, there were at best, people who only cared about money.
Her son plays the Hunter Biden too
Al Capone winks
Or my Dad "Democrats are for the Little Guy"
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