I have a select 2 multi-select option
Doing a little digging, I can see this issue raised on GitHub.
One option is to check to see if the value exists, and append it if it doesn't.
var s2 = $("#selectEvents").select2({
placeholder: "Choose event type",
tags: true
});
var vals = ["Trade Fair", "CA", "Party"];
vals.forEach(function(e){
if(!s2.find('option:contains(' + e + ')').length)
s2.append($('