Carol Etta Kelso
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Quote: "Appreciating the virtues of authors or television pundits with whom you disagree on various issues is generally a good thing.... /1
https://www.thebulwark.com/you-do-not-under-any-circumstances-gotta-hand-it-to-tucker-carlson/
09:02 AM - May 03, 2023
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Carol Etta Kelso
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In response to Carol Etta Kelso.
Finding common ground despite strong differences is essential to liberal democracy and civil society.

But you have to draw the line somewhereβ€”at views that are not just different from yours, and not even just wrong, but (to quote Weiss and Sullivan) β€œreprehensible” and β€œrepellent,” /2
09:03 AM - May 03, 2023
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Carol Etta Kelso
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In response to Carol Etta Kelso.
especially if those views are not just occasional eccentricities on fringe issues but the core of someone’s public persona. To take extreme examples, you don’t look for the good opinions of a prominent Holocaust denier, a self-proclaimed Stalinist, /3
09:04 AM - May 03, 2023
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Carol Etta Kelso
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In response to Carol Etta Kelso.
or an advocate for the decriminalization of adult-child sex.

"Carlson’s repellent views don’t go that far. But his flirtations with white nationalism and authoritarianism, his forays into barely disguised racism and antisemitism, his apologism for the β€œstolen election” lie.... /4
09:05 AM - May 03, 2023
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Carol Etta Kelso
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In response to Carol Etta Kelso.
his narrative that the rioters were harmless protesters, that Capitol Hill police treated them like tourists, and that the violence was incited by undercover federal agents.

"And there’s so much more. For instance, none of the anti-anti-Carlson pundits mentions his frequent dives into misogyny, /5
09:07 AM - May 03, 2023
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Carol Etta Kelso
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which probably reached their nadir in a 2021 segment arguing that America’s failure in Afghanistan was due in large part to supposed attempts to impose β€œneoliberal” feminism on the Afghan population via initiatives promoting the rights of women and girls..... /6
09:07 AM - May 03, 2023
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Carol Etta Kelso
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In response to Carol Etta Kelso.
".....people who dissent from β€œestablishment” opinion tend to see allies in self-styled rebels against authority. And so we end up with Yes, Tucker Carlson is awful in a lot of ways, but. . . apologias.

"To the people making such arguments, I’d offer this question: /7
09:08 AM - May 03, 2023
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Carol Etta Kelso
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In response to Carol Etta Kelso.
If someone sent you a gift box containing a couple of dead and decomposing rats, a dozen live cockroaches and a large glop of excrement, would you be pointing out that the sender also threw in a nice bottle of wine and a box of your favorite chocolates? /8
09:09 AM - May 03, 2023
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Carol Etta Kelso
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Even if you love the chocolates Tucker throws in with all that other stuff, it’s just not worth it." /9

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09:09 AM - May 03, 2023
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