Conor Friedersdorf

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

3) They melodramatically inflate the centrality of white people's words while diminishing the personhood and agency of Black people, as if the latter are victims in waiting so fragile that they can be greivously wounded by (e.g.) a puff piece about football in a web magazine — PolitiTweet.org

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Why are catastrapologies like this worthy of comment? 1) they exaggerate harm in a way that hurts people who don't know to discount the hyperbole. 2) they rob us of words to distinguish actually egregious transgressions. — PolitiTweet.org

Can anyone explain the psychology of this to me? (h/t @jonathanchait) Does anyone who follows me find it remotely r… https://t.co/wT4f2mSk98

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4) when real if minor wrongs are involved there is a way to weirdly escapes accountability for the actual transgression by characterizing your wrongs vaguely, as part of a grand narrative that requires years of nonspecific "work" to overcome. There is accountability in precision — PolitiTweet.org

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