Conor Friedersdorf

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@Siege_Pegasus @ijbailey I know of no one who is committed to the status quo ante — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @zenpundit @cayley_s If I said college administrators who plot to murder faculty members whose views they don't like should be fired would you consider that to be me advocating for universities to enforce a specific ideology? — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @zenpundit @cayley_s False. I do not believe professors should be fired for embracing DEI, or for opposing free speech. I do not believe professors should be subject to any official ideology. I do believe administrators who violate professorial independence should be fired though. — PolitiTweet.org

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Dear @gmail no one who pays money for a newsletter wants it delivered to their otherwise worthless "promotions" tab. What if you make a "newsletters" tab? — PolitiTweet.org

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@zenpundit @rasmansa @cayley_s It is reassuring to see reasonable responses like this. — PolitiTweet.org

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@bendreyfuss I'm generally against evo-vandalism but you can dig a new golf hole in like 30 seconds. I would just fine them the amount to cover carbon offsets for the concrete and compel them to watch one PGA tournament, but no jail time. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @XBillups @realkellye Ultimately, the federal courts, I suppose. — PolitiTweet.org

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@philipoforange Also the residents of those cities, but yes. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @Bedlington312 If you draw a false equivalence between faculty and staff you'll come to all sorts of imprudent conclusions. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: Specific math aside, vacancy trutherism is just such an odd posture. For everything else people buy, we understand that… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KerryHowley: For the crime of mishandling national defense information the Trump administration sent @reazlepuff to jail for five years… — PolitiTweet.org

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Yes. Two years ago it was awful. — PolitiTweet.org

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@realkellye @ijbailey @XBillups I am referring to the viewpoint neutrality that the First Amendment requires of public institutions like UCLA. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @XBillups @realkellye With regard to this matter as a whole, not the particular passage you flag, you are asking the question "is this bad" and I am asking the different question "is this viewpoint neutral"? — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa Given that premise I can see why we disagree on this. — PolitiTweet.org

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@XBillups @ijbailey @realkellye How would you feel about a required faculty statement on facilitating freedom, virtue, and honor in the classroom? — PolitiTweet.org

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@XBillups @ijbailey @realkellye I wonder if you regard this document as an example in your favor or mine https://t.co/dG46WZ3YOx — PolitiTweet.org

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@cfroning Many people making this argument have spent time honestly wrestling with biases in the status quo. — PolitiTweet.org

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@XBillups @ijbailey @realkellye "Our students arrive with highly variable writing skills. How will you effectively teach classes made up of such students?" is a sort of question that's much, much better than "please share with us your inclusion plans." Agree? — PolitiTweet.org

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@XBillups @ijbailey @realkellye I don't think much of lots of standard interview questions. In this particular case, I don't think most hiring committees have rigorously studied what pedagogical approaches improve conclusion, or have even rigorously defined it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@XBillups @ijbailey @realkellye The objection is that "teach inclusively" is vague and useless because it measures the ability to tell hiring committees what they want to hear, not actually teaching in ways that serve students better. There is no evidence doing this "correctly" actually helps anyone. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @realkellye It attacked universities mandating faculty embrace of DEI, not DEI itself. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @realkellye @kennymxu Given that you haven't looked into the matter yet it's hard to understand how you can accuse FIRE of failing to explain it with nuance. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @realkellye I do trust their interpretation of these things because they have born out in my experience and I have never seen anyone refute anything specific about their claims, just make broad assertions of distrust without specificity. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @persnickety1980 @realkellye It's been some weeks since I read them and I was focused on your freedom of speech analysis. I will revisit and reread with a focus on DEI and academic freedom. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @persnickety1980 @realkellye I am happy to hear a specific account of what you think FIRE gets wrong in this matter, but "I don’t trust FIRE’s interpretation" doesn't cut it as a refutation of the example I provided. Why do you think Oregon's approach is permissible? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @persnickety1980 @realkellye Yes, here is an example: https://t.co/Jd1ySmsA8u — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @persnickety1980 @realkellye Because institutions are demanding that prospective hires sign on to their interpretation of DEI, sometimes in ways that violate the law and violate Constitutional rights. — PolitiTweet.org

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@StrangelEdweird @ijbailey @bungarsargon Wait do we know if they actually found any documents and what they were? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @persnickety1980 @realkellye bills with "patriot" or a dead child's name in them, DEI is often used to advance things that would never fly on the merits, including racial discrimination. — PolitiTweet.org