Conor Friedersdorf

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@XBillups @studentactivism I can see competing costs and benefits for different approaches, but wherever one comes down--wherever I would come down if I fleshed every question out completely--the cases I worry about least are when there is a clear, well-understood, widely embraced, longstanding taboo — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 27, 2023

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@XBillups @studentactivism In Germany, I get why there is a special taboo against Holocaust denial, and in America, I get why there is a similar taboo against Jim Crow style racism or hurling the n word at black people. How exactly should that taboo be enforced? I don't know, exactly — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 27, 2023

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@XBillups @studentactivism that is violated, not as part of an exercise in sense-making, but e.g. in a rant meant to cast more heat than light. Now, it may be that excesses of "cancel culture" are so common that we should have a hard rule against firing someone from their job for any extramural speech, — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 27, 2023