Huh. Call me old-fashioned. But I would have thought that the point of a festival of ideas was to expose the audience to ideas. If you only invite your friends over, it’s called a dinner party.https://twitter.com/Alex_Lily/status/1036746235728801792 …
Exposure equals validity for them and their followers. All they need is a venue and time. Not all ideas are created equal. Ideas that destroy humans should not be treated as valid or equal to those that improve the human condition.