If politics is the robust exchange of ideas, there are certainly times when one must look beyond personalities to see the crux of what is being debated.
In the furious exchange between Sarah Hanson-Young and David Leyonhjelm many have become fixated on male versus female or civility versus offensive language. However, it strikes me that the crux of this debacle is actually about collectivism.
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