Re clarification re: NYT and Bret Stephens

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker () gmail com>
> Date: April 25, 2017 at 10:03:03 AM EDT
> To: dave () farber net, ip <ip () listbox com>
> Cc: Dave Burstein <daveb () dslprime com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Clarification re: NYT and Bret Stephens
>
>
> > In particular, I'm not suggesting the Times should be hiring Stephens because of an obligation to give denialists 
> > more space, much less create space for more reporting from the point of view of ISIS, his inference.
> > Rather, I'm saying that someone like Stephens should not be blacklisted because of his opinion on one subject - 
> > climate - that probably won't be much if any of his coverage. Even if he's a nut on the subject.
> > I don't believe that a (probably badly mistaken) opinion about one subject shouldn't mean someone shouldn't be hired 
> > to (mostly) write about other things.
>
>
> Climate denial by an educated person is not as passive or as justifiable as a 'mistake'.  To claim that 97% of the 
> world's experts on a topic are wrong requires a very active, very willful, very distorted choice.  It is a choice 
> that runs counter to criteria of "intellectual depth" and "honesty", both of which were touted as his traits in the 
> Times' announcement of his appointment.
>
> As for the view that merely having one problematic view doesn't negate all the other good ones he might have... the 
> logic template doesn't work if we apply it to other possible cases.  What if that one problematic view were 
> aggressive racism, or if he were an active and unrepentant sexual predator?  Murderer?  In other words, the specifics 
> of what the person is 'mistaken' about matter.
>
> Lest anyone think that my examples are too extreme, note that climate denial walks the long-term path of killing all 
> of us.
>
> d/
>
> -- 
> Dave Crocker
> Brandenburg InternetWorking
> bbiw.net



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