LIFE AT THE NYT: “Charlie’s approach was to engage his adversaries in endless, ongoing conversation — more and more speech. The commenter insists on an end to speech. That too is speech — saying you want an end to the speech on a topic you don’t want to have to speak about. It has an eloquent implication: The listener may assume you don’t have a powerful contradiction.”
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Update: frat bros showed up and the trans dancer got so embarrassed that he quit screaming
What did they do? They politely tried to have a conversation with him
Good job guys, CK is beaming right now https://t.co/NAKvNAzCOl pic.twitter.com/lQ5TMhkMrP
— Tyler Bowyer (@tylerbowyer) September 23, 2025
They literally don’t know how to talk to people who disagree, and see it as an imposition.