I think it's important to acclaim arguments against bad behavior, even when made by people who are doing that same bad behavior. (1) Having good arguments out

I think it's important to acclaim arguments against bad behavior, even when made by people who are doing that same bad behavior. (1) Having good arguments out in the world is a good thing. (2) Positive feedback tends to reinforce behavior - and we want to reinforce news orgs making good arguments against bad behavior. (3) After you have acclaimed their argument, it's much more effective when you use it against them. If you just constantly snipe at people and organizations, I think it becomes much harder to effect change. In "Phaedo," Plato has Socrates give a lesson about misology - that is, hating all reasoning and arguments, and assuming they are bad because you can always find flaws and it's so difficult to reach certainty. It's the intellectual version of misanthropy. Socrates cautions strongly against misology. Just because there are problems with an argument, doesn't mean we shouldn't continue to try to improve and take the good parts from every argument we can find, no matter how flawed the other parts (or the speaker) are. I think this is an important lesson in these times. I think we should stop fighting over whether a person or organization is allowed to say certain things, and concentrate on what parts of what they say should change our behavior.