Story highlights Fareed Zakaria says freedom of speech is not just for ideas we find comfortable

Zakaria: Conservative voices and views are being silenced

(CNN) Fareed Zakaria said Saturday that though many liberals think they are tolerant, often they aren't.

"American universities seem committed to every kind of diversity except intellectual diversity. Conservative voices and views are being silenced entirely," Zakaria said.

The CNN host said he found this attitude strange, especially given that these incidents occurred on college campuses that "promised to give their undergraduates a liberal education."

"The word liberal in this context has nothing to do with today's partisan language, but refers instead to the Latin root, pertaining to liberty. And at the heart of liberty in the Western world has been freedom of speech. From the beginning, people understood that this meant protecting and listening to speech with which you disagreed," Zakaria argued.

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