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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They literally don’t know how to talk to people who disagree, and see it as an imposition.