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That's convenient, so you would support people only willing to be interviewed by sympathetic interviewers who agree with them on controversial topics. How are these things supposed to be worked through if no one is willing to engage in a debate about them?

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> How are these things supposed to be worked through if no one is willing to engage in a debate about them?

The first step in getting people to engage in a debate is for them to believe that the people in the debate will be acting in good faith. That's often not true—I wouldn't agree to an interview on Fox News, for instance, because I would have no confidence that they'd be acting in good faith.

Do you think media outlets that lean left act in good faith when they interview controversial figures from the right?

Whataboutism is nonsense, and I am going to demonstrate what it's like to refuse to engage with people acting in bad faith... now.

Crying "whataboutism" is just a way to deflect from charges of hypocrisy.

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