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Re: icymi above
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Yes he did. He he come out and say exactly that? No. Because then he'd concede Harris's argument. In context, unequivocally, the entirety of his comments were:
"Sam, you should not engage in this sort inquiry as you've done. Murray should only be considered with a pile of caveats I think apply to his work."
Bullshit. Harris can examine Murray's work however he likes. And Klein can examine it however he likes. Neither has the right to tell the other how he should discuss something.
Harris's point was very simple: There's knowledge out there today that politically correct people don't want discussed. Klein responded, Those politically correct people have a point, and you should listen to them. That's ludicrous. It turns that "marketplace of ideas" you cited into a "marketplace of acceptable ideas"... as decided by brahmin like Klein.
Bad ideas die in the light. If Harris desires to discuss the positives of Nazism, or nuclear war, he can do so, and Klein has no business telling him he shouldn't do it. Klein can of course do so, as his free speech rights are as broad as Harris's, but then I can write the following here: Ezra Klein is a politically correct McIntellect.
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You can't find anything in the transcript that is remotely like what you think Klein said. As you say, bad ideas die in the light.
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