I have a different approach to "giving people who are intellectually dishonest and/or willfully ignorant a platform"...I tend to think that you have to give them an opportunity to speak or have a platform, in order for you to destroy it :)
I appreciate some of the following:
- that group think can become dangerous
- having intense and long form discussions on complex issues
- I appreciate his ideas of a hierarchy and why they're needed (even though I don't agree with him on this)
- his perspective on psychedelic plant consumption
- the fact that we don't live in a biologically equitable world (another thing I tend to disagree with)
The reason I appreciate some of the things I disagree with is because I find them to be valid arguments. Even though we are no closer to finding "truth".