Jairus Grove described himself as a debate coach, but displayed little concern for accuracy in his own statements (“Why I called shenanigans on Turning Point USA at UH event,” Star-Advertiser, Island Voices, Sept. 27).

He dismissed comments by Turning Points USA’s Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens as “not worthy.” Conflating The Proud Boys or the Flat Earth Society with Turning Points USA may be an acceptable debate tactic, but it is despicable.

I was in the audience and evidently more informed than Grove, because the statements by Kirk and Owens were accurate, although unpleasant to Grove.

For example, Grove apparently does not know that Islamic countries in the Middle East and Africa are centers of modern slavery.

Grove’s support for the censorship of ideas he disapproves of speaks poorly of the Department of Political Science which, as one graduate student told me, has the most anti-American faculty at the University of Hawaii.

Carol R. White

Punchbowl

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