Debate ends when we label views we simply disagree with as ‘hatred’ | Kenan Malik

To kill off discussions on difficult subjects will only give rise to loathing and bigotry

‘It is better to debate a question without settling it,” observed the 18th-century French writer Joseph Joubert, “than to settle a question without debating it.”

How naive that sounds today. In this age of echo chambers and filter bubbles, it is, many insist, better to settle a question than to debate it, better to be certain that one is right than to risk being proved wrong.

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