Well, at least some people like the varied opinions in the Times Op-Ed pages. There actually are conservatives in NYC you know.

OK, let’s parse what you say you didn’t write, but did.

No, what I actually wrote was:

Pointing out other echo chambers and saying “Conservatives have plenty of echo chambers of their own!” is not much of an argument. Those sites you listed are just like this one, just from the other side of the political spectrum.

It’s not incorrect. Your own comment makes it clear that you’re open to other opinions so long as they’re tailored exactly as you want them to be offered.

I think this guy has views that are conservative but if you can give me a definition of “conservative” that everyone agrees to, let’s see you do it. You can’t and that’s the first flaw in the argument you’re making.

You don’t need to change the provocateur’s mind. It doesn’t matter if you change his mind. You just let him spout off his opinion(s) then you address it and let your reader/viewer/listener draw his or her own conclusion. If they think the provocateur is a dolt, then that’s fine. Maybe they do, maybe they don’t. Maybe…

It’s not more profitable for the home owner to default - that was an error on my part. It’s more profitable for the bank to default.

So now you’re throwing all conservatives in with those that “want the other side murdered and doesn’t see them as fully human.”

What exactly is the response supposed to be to “hang women who have had abortions!”

I’m love to hear conservative points of view that are based in reality; aren’t racist in over- or under-tone; are at least moderately educated and correctly spelled; don’t use fear, logical fallacies, and “the other” to make any point whatsoever; and aren’t based on, rooted in, or having even the faintest whiff of…

Hiring him doesn’t make it more or less of an echo chamber.

So what you’re saying is that NPR does exactly what you say is impossible but, allegedly, is not to be considered because you can’t really refute that it lets people from both sides speak, it works, and everyone likes NPR.

Oh, bullshit. The fact no one is comfortable even entertaining an opposing view is the problem.

They can still overlend, trust me. I can obviously only speak for myself, but I just bought a house, and the initial pre-approval amount I was given was for a mortgage over 1 million dollars! It carried a payment that was approximately 50% of my monthly income.

There’s plenty of good to be had by getting rid of the echo chambers that make everyone feel so comfortable.

If the conservative writer is writing for you, then you own the setting. The Atlantic can let Williamson write whatever he wants, then devote as much space as you want countering what he wrote.

I never said that if they were regulated they’d close. They’ve been regulated for a long time and that’s understood.

No.

Isn’t that kind of the point? If you corral all the conservative “voices” in their own pen, they just spout off without challenge.