If the college republicans weren&#x27;t able spend their portion of student fees to bring some Republican I found repugnant to campus, how would I ever have the opportunity to ask him very uncomfortable questions during the Q&amp;A after his speech?<p>Back when I was a college leftist we welcomed these opportunities.  The idea that they should be censored was abhorrent.<p>In fact, we joined forces with them when the college papers editor decided that he could re-write and censor letters published by both groups (and in the process inflaming hostility between us, until we discovered our words had been changed as had theirs.)<p>I think liberalism has lost sight of the mission of defending ALL people&#x27;s rights, even ones you disagree with.  &quot;I will defend to the death your right to say it&quot; and all that.<p>----<p>(so was I downvoted for challenging republicans or because we joined with the college republican to challenge the censorship in the school paper? Oh, maybe it was criticizing &quot;liberalism&quot;?  I guess that&#x27;s not PC.)<p>----<p>PPS -- This was during the days of &quot;political correctness&quot; when any position taken from the left was shot down with &quot;that&#x27;s just political correctness&quot; and it was an insult- like you could never think that you&#x27;re just being PC. Which of course as not in the least bit true.  Back then.<p>Alas, reality has become a parody of history.