Patrick Wyman
Role at the time: Historian and commentator
Condemned
Statement summary
Wyman praises El-Sayed for engaging with a hostile questioner until the premises behind the hostility are admitted, and says that makes the underlying bigotry impossible to avoid.
“One of the many things I love about El-Sayed is that he's willing to engage with someone hostile if it gets them to admit the premises behind that hostility, to the extent that it becomes impossible to avoid the underlying bigotry.”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)Patrick Wyman says El-Sayed exposed the hostility behind the town-hall question · Patrick WymanPost 3my4l35mh4k22
Patrick Wyman's post comments on the town-hall disavowal question and its premise. Wyman quotes El-Sayed's original post of the Caro exchange.
Why we used this label
Wyman calls the hostility behind the question bigotry while praising El-Sayed for forcing the questioner to confront it.