Re: Remnick v Bannon: In the Slate comments in 2016 we had to consider the question of whether our rules against racism and sexism should change because racism and sexism were entering the political mainstream. 1/
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When you adjust your standards to be more hospitable to racists and sexists you make the conversation less hospitable to people of color and women. That wasn't a price worth paying just as the mainstream political climate became more hostile to such voices. 4/
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When you invite proponents of hateful (but increasingly mainstream) ideologies to a debate on equal terms it makes that space, and by extension the public sphere, more hostile to those who these hateful people hope to silence. In other words, it does their work for them. (end)
