Tolerating dissent
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100% agree.David wrote:I think there was something particularly crappy about Grant's wording: "I'm not comfortable with you being here." For goodness sake, he's running a (supposedly robust and fearless) political debate show, not a crochet club. What on earth relevance does the moderator's personal feelings about a situation have?
The questioner was regurgitating Russian propaganda, but why kick him out of the studio?
It's easy enough to exercise your own free speech and rebut his points.
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