... the elephant in the #BattleofIdeas Barbican is the influence of the right wing media in undermining public debate and democracy.
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Replying to @Colin_Lawson @Nico_Macdonald and
I don't think that is an elephant in any room. Much written on this & argued for this. But this debate was about academia's involvement.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Nico_Macdonald and
Agreed not part of this debate. Spiked team choose conference topics to suit their agenda. Role of right wing press is elephant in agenda.
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Replying to @Colin_Lawson @Nico_Macdonald and
Is it OK with you if people focus on issues other than right-wing causes sometimes? Look at left-wing ones too?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Nico_Macdonald and
Core Spiked authors are obsessed with attacking left wing issues and ignore or reject any issue that undermines their libertarian agenda.
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Replying to @Colin_Lawson @Nico_Macdonald and
I don't know that that's true. It was Conatus who introduced me to that & they are Progressive. I am not libertarian.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Colin_Lawson and
But even if it was, is it OK with you that a Libertarian group pursue their own political agenda?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Nico_Macdonald and
Yes fine they promote their agenda. It's just that they are not always transparent about it and they can be very intolerant of other views.
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Replying to @Colin_Lawson @Nico_Macdonald and
Well, I am not and James & Bob did not seem to be either & we had different views which we discussed amicably at this debate.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Nico_Macdonald and
Cannot comment on the debate but when I visit @spikedonlineI all I see is intolerance and dismissal of anyone with opposing views.
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Well, I haven't seen that. I've just seen you complaining that the debate was not about what you wanted it to be about.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Nico_Macdonald and
My comments were addressed at the conference as a whole. This from a few years back gives my concerns:http://www.reasonandreality.org/?p=1710
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Replying to @Colin_Lawson @Nico_Macdonald and
I suggest not going if you don't like its approach. There are plenty of other left-wing or right-wing events. I value one which is neither.
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