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Sky News host Rowan Dean says Richard Dawkins getting cancelled for a tweet inviting discussion on identity politics was a sad reflection of society’s capacity to engage in intellectual inquiry.

“What Dawkins said in his tweet was perfectly acceptable,” he told Sky News host Andrew Bolt.

“Perfectly legitimate question and he even put in ‘discuss’- in other words, which is the classic thing you put in to tell the class ‘here’s two sides of a debate’ or ‘here’s a problem to be solved intellectually’ – off you go people, go and solve this intellectual conundrum.

“He puts these conundrums out there – we used to call them brain teasers, we used to call them the opportunity for a good debate.

“We are really in a sad place if that sort of intellectual inquiry or argument is now just verboten, it’s gone – you can’t say it.”