To Platform or Not to Platform?
Or why I don't think it's particularly useful to condemn Trump when he does or says obviously abhorrent things.
In my latest Washington Post column, I tried to do something I generally like doing. It’s not for everyone though. Basically, I wanted to write something about Trump’s wild Gaza comments during his press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu — but without stating the obvious. Yes, what Trump said wasn’t just bad but morally abhorrent. But those of us who don’t like ethnic cleansing already know that ethnic cleansing is bad.
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