To promote civil discourse, I think a good first step involves being honest and respectful to those of differing views.
In his April 30 opinion column, “First 100 days of the anti-Trump crowd,” Jay Ambrose consistently fails in the honesty and respect departments. Ambrose wrote “on college campuses, groups of anti-Trump, anti-conservative, narcissistic, spoiled students have been doing their best to shut up conservative intellectuals offering views different from their own.” The bulk of the protests on college campuses were due to racist bigots such as Charles Murray, Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter. Murray, in particular, is widely known for his co-authorship of “The Bell Curve,” which attempts to justify racism with logical fallacy upon logical fallacy.
If they are Ambrose’s ideas of “conservative intellectuals” then one must ask why The Columbian gives space to Ambrose. There is no need to “balance” condemnations of racism and bigotry with apologists for racists and bigots.
