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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There’s been a lot of confusion, discussion, but also confusion, about the idea of platforming some person or deplatforming someone versus canceling them. It came up during the Tucker Carlson interview of Nick Fuentes. I think we should make a distinction.

If you have a venue, you’re a talk-show host, a podcaster, you’re inviting someone to lecture, that’s a choice that you make. And you operate within particular sidelines, parameters. In other words, you don’t invite an abject racist. You don’t invite an abject antisemite. You don’t invite somebody who would like to have that forum to advance your views. And we have to be very clear about this.

People in the news that are antisemites, racist, anti-American, radicals, whatever extremist point of view they embrace, they get to a point of public exposure because they’re quite skilled in demagogic rhetoric. They’re formidable debaters.

If anybody went back to “Firing Line” and watched William F. Buckley debate George Wallace, Buckley had the moral and the intellectual argument on his........

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