Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@JDHaltigan I hope the right nominates a candidate who isn't actively hostile to classical liberalism as in the last two elections. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

When I was seventeen It was a very good year It was a very good year for $5 shows of West Coast ska We didn't pract… https://t.co/CQuHXNMhL3 — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidminpdx Looking forward to you dedicating 10 percent as much time to championing free speech as you do taking… https://t.co/LQ7vmNg9JR — PolitiTweet.org

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@hiltzikm Much appreciated, thanks for reading — PolitiTweet.org

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@SimulatedO Here is a good enough definition: "Critical race theory is a movement that challenges the ability of co… https://t.co/qoBhYmUW8I — PolitiTweet.org

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If you neither convey what actual critical race theory is nor what conservatives who appropriated the term are upse… https://t.co/CY8NnDoC0l — PolitiTweet.org

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This passage appears in an AP article on New College. But "critical race theory" is not "a legal term" and it has n… https://t.co/8D9mHCrMa3 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @abc7newsbayarea: A block of snow was removed from the roof of a Truckee, Calif. home as the Sierra Nevada mountains experienced its sec… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey If (say) Stanford replaced it's DEI bureaucracy with a free speech analog tomorrow that would be a welcom… https://t.co/o50wGXzBn5 — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey IMHO the introduction of any brand new bureaucracy tasked with a basket of goods and given significant bu… https://t.co/itooIc0rGa — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@ijbailey There are lots of longstanding principles that would represent a radical change to university governance… https://t.co/tA2AknEdLt — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@ijbailey If someone suggested a new Dean of Gun Rights at Davidson would you regard that as a radical new approach… https://t.co/O0IBx8y5Uj — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey Wrt free speech we have both 1st amendment law and exhaustive statements like the Chicago principles, the… https://t.co/M9RKl1xgXF — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @YAppelbaum: I'm not saying that the stagnation of the last half-century was *caused* by under-caffeination, just that our coffee consum… — PolitiTweet.org

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@AsVacation @ijbailey My position is not that the colleges were in fact reoriented fundamentally; but rather, that… https://t.co/7tZA8QKWC1 — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey rad·i·cal 📷 adjective 1.(especially of change or action) relating to or affecting the fundamental nature… https://t.co/mxI4djYTTf — PolitiTweet.org

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On Twitter Blue, I use this platform for 2 things: to see views outside my bubble; to help my work reach a larger a… https://t.co/uuXM8Enp7n — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey That is to say, if you tell me you are making DEI central to your university, I don't know what you mean… https://t.co/N6xPuJVJIF — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey It is a fundamental reorientation of the university in a way that free expression, a longstanding imperat… https://t.co/dasno0q0Ot — PolitiTweet.org

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I would like the coalition of people who are resistant to imposing top down ideologies on higher ed to grow, but th… https://t.co/5E45tJeMiI — PolitiTweet.org

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The answer, of course, is that the center-left was friendly to the ideology that was being pushed in the summer of… https://t.co/IWQLxgmxgn — PolitiTweet.org

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As I put it in my piece: "Republican political appointees foisted a top-down ideological agenda onto every public u… https://t.co/7Qn7CjxYxR — PolitiTweet.org

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Now, the fact that a DeSantis appointee to the Board of Governors led the working group that produced this is embar… https://t.co/57PG8D6Fdx — PolitiTweet.org

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They envisioned a role for DEI on the academic side of institutions, including graduation requirements for students… https://t.co/nSB56fo8IH — PolitiTweet.org

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As for staffing, "The importance of having a senior-level university administrator to lead the establishment, imple… https://t.co/dnjA1XYKlT — PolitiTweet.org

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And it warned, "annual D.E.I. accountability measures and a broad array of performance indicators will be establish… https://t.co/pAJelgHNMs — PolitiTweet.org

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For example, it stated, "a university’s strategic plan, as well as its mission statement, should prioritize diversi… https://t.co/YQlslKyYX6 — PolitiTweet.org

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The link to the memo that spells it out is suddenly dead today, but you can see it using the Way Back Machine.… https://t.co/cqkAibN1qZ — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

In my feature on the takeover of New College (https://t.co/6e6caRZwma), I note that the most significant push to ma… https://t.co/vVKUZs1B0n — PolitiTweet.org

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@FJohnIV @realchrisrufo Finally, administrative bloat in higher Ed is out of control, and I think, even at New Coll… https://t.co/3zbOu0NPkl — PolitiTweet.org