The following program has the potential dare I say probability to give offense.

It's Friday, July 17th, 2020 from Slate It's the Gisdy Mike Pasca.

Today we have a different show.

It's the Gist, just a different format.

I'm giving the entire show over to a longer than usual discussion.

A debate, if you will, on the subject of fairness, hearings, harm, and the Harper's letter.

So you probably know that over 150 thinkers and teachers and journalists

signed the letter in Harper's magazine that said,

we as a culture are being overly sensorial and sensorial

when it comes to encountering opinions we don't like.

Now since then, you've probably heard all the back and forth about whether that was fair,

whether that was just a leech wanting to escape accountability,

whether it's just a case of the traditional gatekeepers,

not liking the construction and placement of the gates.

I heard the back and forth too, but here's the thing.

I never heard it in the same place at the same time.

This debate about the debate was not being held in anything resembling a debate.

Oh, there are lots of opinions and so many, many outlets

where you could hear every flavor and gradation of the discussion,

but never as a discussion between two parties.

In my Twitter feed, I heard the dispatch and the national review and commentary

in the Adam Corolla show and Joe Rogan and use Fleta as in block and reported

...