CNN host jabs progressives for political correctness

Don Lemon with CNN

Don Lemon, a CNN news host not exactly known for a conservative viewpoint, took a very public stab at progressives during his recent broadcast, asking his guests a pointblank question: Are those on the far left becoming “more intolerant” than those on the ideological right?

Lemon’s question was posed in context of discussing Bryan Stascavage, a former U.S. Army military intelligence analyst and Wesleyan college student who was vilified for penning a college newspaper opinion that was entitled, “Why Black Lives Matter Isn’t What You Think,” as reported by WND. After the piece ran, Stascavage, who suggested the movement wasn’t entirely justified in its condemnation of cops, was verbally attacked and the student government voted to cut funding for the publication.

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Lemon asked his guests, one of whom was Stascavage and the other, CNN contributor Bakari Sellers: “Have we become so politically correct that it is even impossible to have productive conversations any more?”

Sellers said he read Stascavage’s opinion piece and found it offensive and factually inaccurate, but he still supported its publication.

“He does have a right to write that op-ed piece. Even more importantly, what you do with offensive speech,” Sellers said, in the video, “is you don’t shut it down, you don’t stop the dialogue. The antidote is more free speech. … That is what our country is built on, free speech.”

He also said “we do have a problem with political correctness here.”

“The Death of Free Speech: How Our Broken National Dialogue Has Killed the Truth and Divided America” examines how the news media has created arbitrary, biased and illogical rules for determining what can and cannot be said in the public arena.

Stascavage said he only wrote the piece to spark discussion.

“People have disagreed with the article left and right and up and down. That’s all right. The reason I wrote it was to start a conversation,” he said. “I have learned a lot more about the movement and issues behind it.”

Lemon then referred to the third Republican presidential candidate debate and the furor ignited by some of the moderator questions, perceived as biased, and asked: “Are progressives becoming too politically correct … are they maybe too intolerant or more intolerant than conservatives in some ways?”

Lemon then added a few moments later, “I don’t believe in political correctness.”

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