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When I was in college the Vietnam War was raging. I had just gotten out of the military and so, by definition, I was a hawk. I felt our government was doing the right thing because, after all, it was our government.
After a while I became aware that our government was wrong. I did not become what you might call a "peacenik." I just felt that this specific war was wrong.
I had changed.
While I was a student and for long afterward, I would become righteously indignant, even enraged, when the university, my university, would invite speakers to campus who were not liberal in their views. I thought it was virtuous to demonstrate against them. It was my feeling, wrongfully so, that being the liberal institution it was, the university should allow only liberal speakers to come in and present their ideas.
That is hypocrisy at its finest. By definition a liberal institution should be liberal in who it invites to speak, letting individuals with varying points of view share their philosophies. I did not then feel like this.
I had changed.