Good on Fox for apologizing. The apology itself was well-worded and not backhanded in any way. That makes me feel better about its sincerity. I will note that Ingram's subsequent language was in poor taste and indicates that she herself was deficit in incorporating the message Fox communicated.
I agree that one guest's comments don't reflect the whole of Fox, and I also believe Fox bears some responsibility here. They may not know what their guests will say, but they know something about what they've said in the past. In this case, I don't know enough about the commenter to have much opinion on how much responsibility rests with the network. The minimum amount would be the case of providing a platform with no reasonable expectation of such an attack and apologizing for the content afterward.
Respect is earned, not given as a right. The past three or four generations have NOT earned respect, because we've all decided to forgo our planet for profits.
I fundamentally disagree with this statement. I believe a certain amount of respect for a person's humanity is critical to be recognized in all persons. In that absence, we leave ourselves vulnerable to dehumanization such as what's going on at the border and in Nazi Germany and, perhaps the most profound example of this vulnerability taking brisk dangerous hold, Rwandan genocide.
I think it is also fundamentally demonstrable using basic logic.
1. Humans are prone to, at least sometimes, make errors in judgment or misinterpretations of things
2. If respect is earned, then who gets respected depends upon someone's potentially very flawed assessment
3. If there is no respect for whoever has been inappropriately denied, then a person is not open to conflicting information from that disrespected source
4. If a person is not open to conflicting information, they never become aware of their error in judgment
If we add to this the observation that sometimes people's mistaken beliefs are due to a motivation to hold such a belief and our social tendency to organize into groups and adopt the beliefs of other group members without any information from our own observations, this vulnerability becomes all the more powerful.
Also, this thread has a lot of those problems on display. Hopefully someone here will be willing to try a different perspective.