Comments on: Understanding Courtland Milloy http://dcentric.wamu.org/2010/11/understanding-courtland-milloy/ Race, Class, The District. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rbton http://dcentric.wamu.org/2010/11/understanding-courtland-milloy/#comment-153 Rbton Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:14:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=2278#comment-153 "While my friends of one hue were outraged that the Post would legitimize a point of view they considered backwards, incendiary and racist, a few friends of another hue quietly maintained that he is the only one publicly representing the point of view of many D.C. residents who are otherwise never heard." Both are correct. The question I have is whether a paper should publish and thus legitimize a view just because a lot of people believe it. If the paper can legitimize Milloy's racist tirades, will they now publish columns to advance the incorrect notion that the president is a foreign-born Muslim? “While my friends of one hue were outraged that the Post would legitimize a point of view they considered backwards, incendiary and racist, a few friends of another hue quietly maintained that he is the only one publicly representing the point of view of many D.C. residents who are otherwise never heard.”

Both are correct. The question I have is whether a paper should publish and thus legitimize a view just because a lot of people believe it. If the paper can legitimize Milloy’s racist tirades, will they now publish columns to advance the incorrect notion that the president is a foreign-born Muslim?

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