Conor Friedersdorf

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@evansmithhist There is no faction that has a monopoly on threatening free speech. Presidents from both political parties have threatened it. Left-leaning college administrators and right-leaning state legislators both undermine it. If you're only looking in one direction, look around more. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 16, 2022

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

Free speech is perpetually under threat and always needs defending. When the right is attacking free speech they call its defenders hysterics. The left has been doing the same lately. The appropriate response is always to insistently defend free speech from all sides. — PolitiTweet.org

Just to repeat myself, moral panics about intolerant students and campus censorship has existed in UK since late 19… https://t.co/XibhFS3bos

Posted Aug. 16, 2022

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@evansmithhist That is correct. Mao was a much bigger threat to free speech than was Donald Trump, for example. But I don't think we should let that blind us to the threat Trump posed. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 16, 2022