Conor Friedersdorf

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

Let's take Barack Obama as an example. If people can be nearly fit into this binary, how does one situate an eloquent proponent of racial equality who strengthened the civil rights division of DOJ and prosecuted a campaign of drone strikes on America's behalf? — PolitiTweet.org

& when we understand this is a structural issue, we can see that this *is* actually a binary. You are either workin… https://t.co/awXEp…

Posted July 9, 2020 Hibernated

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

I wanted to compare and contrast this moment of national trauma w/ the aughts partly bc we needn't harken back to (say) Maoism to describe excesses in this moment--we can see similar errors other Americans w different politics made in the recent past https://t.co/Xi0bHXfxeb — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 9, 2020 Hibernated

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

It seems to me that the people scapegoating individuals and (eg) book stores for structural problems are the ones making this error, not me. I agree there are lots of structural problems and urge lots of changes to address them. — PolitiTweet.org

But, as I said, this makes the mistake of treating this as an interpersonal issue rather than a structural one. Rac… https://t.co/XMFtyJZwfp

Posted July 9, 2020 Hibernated