Conor Friedersdorf

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

I do not claim it was mainstream. It was a well-known view of a noisy faction that too many people who should know better popularized and treated as if it was mainstream, despite its untenability and unpopularity. It wasn't treated as "nuts" but now you say it's "nut-picking" — PolitiTweet.org

Counter point: The zeitgeist was never *abolish the police.* you are nut-picking and trying to represent it as a ma… https://t.co/15yLGgp0ox

Posted Nov. 20, 2021

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

The point isn't that the two stances are in direct abstract contradiction, but that they are in obvious practical contradiction, because there's no world in which there are no criminals, or where, absent police, vigilantes aren't widespread. — PolitiTweet.org

Wow so the same people who think police shouldn’t murder people also think citizens shouldn’t murder people??????? https://t.co/KqWk7AnWc4

Posted Nov. 20, 2021

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

Certain spectacles--the tiki torch march in Charlottesville, rioting and looting of cities, antifa in Portland, the January 6 storming of the Capitol--are radicalizing. The people who engage in them all but guarantee responses in reaction that add to the toll of damage to society — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 20, 2021