Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@ijbailey Your "I know it when I see it" approach is a bad one to tout because it's the same subjective one that allows Rushdie's attackers to muddy the distinction between his writing a book and them stabbing him for it. They "knew" his book was "violence" when they saw it. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@XBillups @AustonWhite3 @ijbailey @athie_gnome What's alarming is how it enables stabbing Salmon Rushdie or murdering French satirists or slapping Chris Rock or injuring that professor who was interviewing Charles Murray by believing and claiming they aren't initiating violence, just responding in kind to it. — PolitiTweet.org