Sarah Silverman Is Worried Liberals Are Losing Their Way – UPROXX

Sarah Silverman has never been one to care too much about political correctness. Yet she understands that publicly identifying with a particular political group is one way to signal your basic ideologies, and shes worried that some people who self-identify as liberals or progressives might be losing sight of what that stands for.

As Mediaite reports, Silverman shared a personal story on the latest episode of her podcast about how her friends kid goes to a so-called liberal school, where they just expelled a group of eighth-graders for essentially doing the kinds of things that eighth-graders do. In this case: Making a list of all the kids in their class, then ranking them by popularity, from most to least.

Silverman said that she couldnt stop thinking about the story, because it was something she was seeing happening with liberals and progressives. [And] I worry what liberal has become is becoming antithetical to its cause.

Given that the traditional definition of a liberal is one who supports the individual and individual rights such as freedom of speech, Silverman has a point. Which isnt to say that she agrees with the exercise in question. But, in her mind, it could have been a teachable moment:

Its not nice, of course. But it is a part of how children develop. These misguided attempts of figuring out: Where do I fit? Where am I in this picture? Its very usual of behavior at that age

I mean god, what an opportunity to teach them about why you had that impulse, and who you hurt, Give them detention, punish them. But expulsion? There needs to be, especially, and critically for children, a path to redemption when you make a mistake. Its such a f***ing teachable moment.

To Silverman, that the schools immediate reaction was to remove the teens involved in the incident means that they should no longer be able to identify as a liberal place of learning.

You are not progressive if youll not allow children with developing mindsif you allow them no room to progress for progress, she said. You cant call yourself progressive if youre kicking kids out of school for navigating childhood poorly.

You can listen to the full episode on Spotify.

(Via Mediaite)

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