LogFAQs > #931845255

I've seen a lot of people that have a baseline assumption that if you want to deny a platform to someone, it means you're incapable of challenging their ideas and simply want to silence them instead. It's presented as intellectual laziness and bullying. But that's not what it is. If we're going to have an equal society, some things have to be acknowledged as settled and beyond debate. Like the value of human life for one.

Not ideas are equal. History has proven that some need to be dismissed out of hand. And different ideas work differently than others in the marketplace of ideas. It's assumed that the truth wins, but very often it doesn't. The truth can get it's ass kicked because it's uncomfortable or complicated of because a lie has more resources behind it, is shouted, and makes people feel good or gives them someone to direct their anger towards.

That's exactly why when he has Milo or Gavin or Molyneux on, having Bernie on doesn't cancel it out and make him fair and balanced. The bigoted but viral lie is helped a lot more by being legitimized and spread than the truth is.

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