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Hasan Minhaj is the front-runner to be the next host of The Daily Show .
The New Yorker published an exposé of the renowned Indian American comedian.
He's accused of fostering a hostile workplace for female staffers of his show, the critically acclaimed Patriot Act .
Frida Ghitis: The revelation spurred complex, layered conversations about the necessity of strict factuality in emotive storytelling.
Minhaj was a rare public figure who could be a high-profile voice for our fears.
He could get people in the highest levels of society to hear and pass on his onstage and offstage anecdotes about how Trump’s Islamophobia -fueled rise affected him and his family directly, as it did ours.
He never even hinted that he was doing a character, or giving voice to stories he’d heard from others.
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