Remember when people complained about PC culture during the election? Nonsense like this is exactly what they were talking about.

To be fair, one of the most dangerous characters in Asimov's Foundation series was first introduced as a clown.

Goddamnit no, most trump supporters don't say that. Do you read any right wing news? Try it. They do have legitimate concerns and grievances, which should be debated. I would suggest reading the National Review, which is sort of like the New York Times for the right, because it's important to actually understand what…

We won the battle but lost the war there. Look at conservative coverage! They are flipping shit over it. A casual trump supporter watching fox news who may have had regrets now has images of the left as violent thugs breaking random windows and burning limos, instead of being a side with legitimate grievances,…

Well, the alternative is violence etc, which has only resulted in terrible press for the left and convinced the right that they are correct.

Yeah, articles written for and by our side. Getting him on a stage where his viewers/followers will watch and watch him lose the war of ideas is a vastly different thing. This isn't giving him a platform to monologue, it's subjecting him to a debate and an intellectual fight in a manner that may sway some of his…

And the people opposed to civil rights thought the same and so part of the movement was about changing people's minds, exposing racism, showing it (often through brutal news coverage showing black children being attacked by police dogs etc) which swayed hearts and minds.

Absolutely there's a legitimate argument to be made that it wouldn't advance ideas or discussion, but if we shut it down without fighting, then as far as the right's concerned, they've won whatever argument they think Milo was bringing.

Then point that out! Expose it as not actual opinions but juvenile trolling. Show that the emperor has no clothes. If you don't engage, the right considers the fight to be theirs.

But maybe reasoned discussion would have avoided the Japanese internment camps, avoided turning away Jewish refugees or caused people to open their eyes to what Germany was doing.

Then point that out! Call him out on the fundamental brutality of what he's proposing, point out he's only trolling for headlines, that his "opinions" are hysterical clickbait. If you just ignore him he becomes a martyr to the right and convinces them we can't win this in an argument.

No. Either be confident in your positions or reconsider them. Don't shut people up, give them a platform upon which you can challenge them. Yes, maybe he'll bring in some interesting arguments or points of view I hadn't considered, but Maher will also shut him down in ways I hadn't considered.

Yeah, reading reviews of south park here is… an interesting experience. Sometimes I can't tell if they are working to reinterpret the jokes or whether they really don't get them. (Like insisting that Cartman's harassing "Say something funny, go on, my vagina…" is actually a critique of how women are demanded to prove…

Member when no adult with a life wasted their time posting on message boards?

Jokes, not really your strong suit eh? Look, Cartman, who was once grounded "for trying to exterminate the jews last week" has far worse things in his internet history than complaining about women in ghostbusters. BUT, now that he's PC (bro) that is the worst thing he could have written.
In point form:

"even his comments about the Ghostbusters remake are passé for him" - The reviewer is missing the joke by a wide margin. The idea is that Cartman is ensconced in the PC left, a group to whom his comments about Ghostbusters were evil.
(Remember when James Rolfe got tarred as a raging misogynist because he didn't want…

No! You cannot say that because she doesn't subscribe to all your beliefs she is a misogynist. This is… Argh! This mode of thought is basically everything that's wrong with political discourse.

Did you watch her video about gamergate, or just read an angry blurb about it? https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Again, have you read anything she's written that would convince you she is anti feminist? Here are her positions as per Wikipedia "Sommers' positions and writing have been characterized by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as equity feminism, a classical-liberal or libertarian feminist perspective which suggests…

That seems pretty tenuous. Again, I'd love a link. I know that she's said that the sexism in video games stuff was more fluff silliness.