Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@trizzlor @EoinHiggins_ @GarrettBroad @manolistrecker If you want a fully fleshed out version, I basically agree with everything in the books The OmniAmericans and Racecraft — PolitiTweet.org

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@trizzlor @EoinHiggins_ @GarrettBroad @manolistrecker My view is that everyone who wants to end racism should stop indulging in racial essentialism, but that large groups of people who do want that end in fact wind up going along with a lot of racecraft. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mario_anchor Luckily I actually speak Spanish well enough to get along. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EoinHiggins_ @GarrettBroad @manolistrecker (I try to always avoid using antiracist as a pejorative. I am an antiracist, even if I think some who use the term have hijacked it in the name of stuff I find contrary to it.) — PolitiTweet.org

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@EoinHiggins_ @GarrettBroad @manolistrecker Had I called it anti-racist I would have deleted the Tweet. But in fact I called it nonsense racial essentialism. And it is, just coming from a different perspective than I initially thought. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @JeffreyASachs One irony of all this is that I am far closer to you, as an outright race abolitionist, than 99 percent of Americans. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @JeffreyASachs For 10 years, in many different arguments, unconstructive styles of arguers distract from the matter at hand by trying to bait me into attacking Andrew Sullivan, usually misrepresenting him in the process. Regardless, I am tired of it and I do indeed ignore it, as a pattern. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @JeffreyASachs Perceive what, the thing you already acknowledged to be a falsehood? If others perceive that falsehood perhaps it's because people like you breezily spread it and acknowledge the lie only under intense pressure. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cobra0483 @rasmansa @JeffreyASachs As I acknowledged, I didn't recognize the initial Tweet as a troll, and I quickly added a second tweet adding that context while also standing behind the literal words I wrote, which still turned out to be right, as I think you'll see if you reread them. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @JeffreyASachs Again, I do not attack antiracists. My beef is with racial essentialists. You are erroneously conflating the two, not me. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @JeffreyASachs Now you're trying desperately to distract from your lie. I'm going to block you before indulging much more of this. As you know damn well, I have published many articles attacking things you regard as racism. — PolitiTweet.org

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@safarishane @rasmansa @JeffreyASachs It isn't an appeal to authority. I have published many articles attacking things that he agrees is racism. His statement is false by his lights. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @JeffreyASachs That's false, and easily proven false by numerous published articles, and if you have integrity you'll delete it because it is false. — PolitiTweet.org

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@johntabin @neontaster Yes, the way in France is to start speaking bad French so the annoyance is expressed in speaking English to you, rather than asking about English so the annoyance is expressed as withholding of English. — PolitiTweet.org

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@GarrettBroad @manolistrecker I'm not doubling down. I added a tweet with the context I missed, but also reread the original tweet and still agree with everything in it. What part of it should I disagree with now? — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @JeffreyASachs I know you are unconcerned about racial essentialism and identitarianism, or whatever term you prefer, on the left, but I have never understood why. Racial stereotyping is wrongheaded and damaging no matter where it comes from. — PolitiTweet.org

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@GarrettBroad @manolistrecker I reread the original tweet to see if anything in it was wrong given the new info, but actually, everything in it still holds. And I added a second tweet with the additionally relevant info. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @JeffreyASachs (I know a lot of people have ceded "antiracist" to progressive identitarians but I am not one of them.) — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @JeffreyASachs I was not attacking antiracists. I am an atiracist. I was attacking racial essentialism. — PolitiTweet.org

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My impulse in foreign countries is always to ask *do you speak English?* rather than to assume but this is feeling increasingly silly in Sweden and Norway where so far it's a 100 percent rate of *Oh yes I speak English as well if not better than you do.* — PolitiTweet.org

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@manolistrecker Added a second tweeting noting it was apparently a troll — PolitiTweet.org

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Note: other commenters say this is a troll job, not language the author believes. Regardless, the ideas expressed are wrongheaded. — PolitiTweet.org

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@manolistrecker Okay, well regardless of his politics, whatever they are, his statement is racially essentialist nonsense — PolitiTweet.org

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@manolistrecker That's who I was criticizing, not the video — PolitiTweet.org

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1) The dancers and style of dance in the video look great and worth celebrating. 2) The notion that "graceful, flowing movements" are white, let alone "white supremacist," is nonsense racial essentialism that people who want to end racism should stop indulging. — PolitiTweet.org

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When you openly criticize your colleagues for speaking the truth as they see it rather than self-censoring for political reasons, it is you who erode the legitimacy of your profession by demonstrating the existence of a politics-over-truth faction. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: This whole line of thought that you shouldn't say things that you think are true because those things may be "weaponized"… — PolitiTweet.org

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For bigger families, stop sending Russian fathers to be slaughtered in needless wars of choice. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@JDHaltigan So far Trump has won once, prompting no violence from his opponents, and lost once, promoting violence from his supporters. No spin alters those facts. Stop defending him and whatabouting the deadly violence he called forth. He doesn't deserve it. — PolitiTweet.org

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(I know I could deny him fruits and vegetables but I'm being nice.) — PolitiTweet.org