We all know that many on the political Left are sympathetic to banning hate speech, but it’s rare that we get an intellectually honest argument to that effect.

On Thursday, we did. Enter Nesrine Malik’s latest column at the Guardian. I stumbled across the piece thanks to Alex Griswold’s tweeting. Malik makes a number of assertions worthy of our attention. First, she claims that far-right speakers do not deserve a platform for their views: “They are cynical exploiters of [platforms given]… It’s a scam, trading notoriety and worse for attention. Why do we fall for it?”