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To: babble-on

So your argument is not against Bannon (and by extension the Breitbart contributors), but rather with the lack of moderation in their comments section - do I have this right?

The larger question is - do you take issue with Bannon being A Trump advisor?


34 posted on 11/17/2016 2:38:55 PM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: jonno

I do not take issue with Bannon being a Trump advisor. Seems like a very intelligent guy, whose input Trump clearly values highly. I read the Buzzfeed interview from 2014 and there were a lot of interesting and new ideas in it. He’s got an understanding of political economy that is worth paying attention to, because it’s far more nuanced than the Left is giving him credit for.

But there is a dismissive tone in there as well to the potential dangers of incorporating white nationalists into a political movement. Bannon believes that their influence will be so dilute by the time policies are made that they are not a concern. But I am less comfortable with that assessment and I think that providing an apparently unmoderated forum for racialist politics to thrive in the comments sections of a website a person is the CEO of is not a positive mark on his character.


35 posted on 11/17/2016 2:51:45 PM PST by babble-on
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