# Don't Burn This Book ![rw-book-cover](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71AbI0dhfqL._SY160.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Dave Rubin]] - Full Title: Don't Burn This Book - Category: #books ## Highlights - classical liberals oppose judging people based on ethnicity or religion. They only judge the individual. ([Location 974](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VSBVT8Y&location=974)) - See, these days, any reasonable person who entertains a conservative principle—even something as mundane as small government or low taxes—can be linked to the amorphous far right, which is quite a reach. Even for progressives. ([Location 979](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VSBVT8Y&location=979)) - The psychology behind this leap is as follows: if you’re a sane person, progressives would need to consider your views like reasonable adults. But because they don’t want to question their narrow, dogmatic worldview, they categorize you as extreme. This enables them to completely dismiss you without feeling bad. In fact, it makes them feel morally righteous. In their minds they’ve exterminated a deadly enemy. ([Location 981](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VSBVT8Y&location=981)) - Meanwhile, back in the real world, politicians such as Ilhan Omar can be blatantly anti-Semitic, implying that Jews have dual loyalty, which is literally what Hitler said—yet progressives give her a free pass. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, even defended Omar’s bile, saying: “I don’t think our colleague is anti-Semitic. I think she has a different experience in the use of words.” ([Location 1086](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VSBVT8Y&location=1086)) - This cognitive dissonance stems from one key truth about modern leftism: progressives see racism, sexism, and discrimination everywhere, except where it actually exists. ([Location 1094](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VSBVT8Y&location=1094)) - That being said, it’s still not racist to observe that half of the homicides in America are committed by and against African Americans. There may be countless reasons behind this, and I truly wish things were different, but it’s a fact. This is not racist. If anything, it’s racist to ignore this and make the task of finding a solution even more difficult. ([Location 1103](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VSBVT8Y&location=1103)) - “The lie behind the buzzword of ‘diversity’ could not be made more clear: if you don’t conform, then you don’t count as ‘diverse,’ no matter what your personal background.” ([Location 1124](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VSBVT8Y&location=1124)) - truly believe it’s the far-left puritans who are the greatest threat to our free, pluralistic democracy. ([Location 1127](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VSBVT8Y&location=1127)) - The left’s nonstop, casual use of the term Nazi to shame, defame, and besmirch is so indiscriminate, so scattergun, and so preposterous that you’re almost duty bound to disregard it. ([Location 1136](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VSBVT8Y&location=1136))