Conor Friedersdorf

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

Back then, it was conservatives who decried the act of giving a platform to a man with extremist fascistic views; on the left, enlightened conventional wisdom was that of course a liberal institution should open its "platform" to him if only to learn his views and rebut them 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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On the question of changing generational attitudes toward "platforming" at elite center-left institutions, I'm thinking about a 2007 controversy at Columbia University when it invited Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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President Bush weighed in on the matter: "He's the head of a state sponsor of terror--and yet an institution in our country gives him a chance to express his point of view, which really speaks to the freedoms of the country. I'm not sure I'd have offered the same invitation." — PolitiTweet.org

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