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Update:Steve Bannon lambastedThe New Yorkers David Remnick for his dismissal fromThe New Yorkerfestival Monday night.
I dont want well-meaning readers and staff members to think that Ive ignored their concerns.
Ive thought this through and talked to colleagues and Ive re-considered.
Ive changed my mind.
There is a better way to do this.
I genuinely support public intellectual debate, and have paid to see people speak with whom I strongly disagree.
But this isnt James Baldwin vs William F Buckley.
This is PT Barnum level horseshit.
If Steve Bannon is at the New Yorker festival I am out.
I will not take part in an event that normalizes hate.
I hope the@NewYorkerwill do the right thing and cancel the Steve Bannon event.
Maybe they should read their own reporting about his ideology.
On the same program?Could never happen.
Sorry,@NewYorker.
You cant jump on and off the record.
He created an online home for white nationalists to groom and grow their violent base.
He cemented his destructive white supremacist views into the DNA of the White House.
Now, New Yorker is selling tickets to see him headline.
It emboldens him and his ilk.
And those of us who object are told we’re just angry instead of wide awake.
Bravo to everyone involved.
Chelsea Clinton agreed with Gays assessment and also added thatThe Economisthad also included Bannon in their Open Future festival.
(Bannon will be engaging in a fireside chat with editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes.)
Bannon invite is harder to understand.
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