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In reply to the discussion: Anthony Bourdain eviscerates privileged Eastern liberals' for utter contempt of working-class [View all]Snackshack
(2,540 posts)"When we deny them their basic humanity and legitimacy of their views, however different they may be than ours, when we mock them at every turn, and treat them with contempt, we do no one any good."
Fair enough statement.
Having said that his comment above makes no condition of the veracity concerning the "legitimacy" of the "view" expressed. As Neil Degrasse Tyson basically framed for example there should not be a seat at the debate table for someone who's "view" is that the Earth is flat. If a persons view is contrary to all reality based facts they should not be in the debate. This slow creep in the public arena towards the idea the everyone's view is legitimate (over the last decade or so) is proving to be very costly. At some point this is going to have to stop or we really are going to end up irrigating our crops with "Brawndo" because it's what plant crave.