I think people are worried about the undermining and denigration of intelligent, disciplined, rational discourse, coupled with growing hate based movements which exploit ignorance, fears and prejudices as a way of gaining political support. I don't think it's a straightforward issue.
It's not like we haven't seen examples of this working with terrible consequences in the past.
It's along the same lines, but not exactly the same issue; the way we're giving equal airtime to ignorance as expertise on the issue of climate change for the sake of balanced debate is going to have devastating consequences.
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