Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@EricMGarcia If you want engagement you're going to have to stop misrepresenting me first. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

The cumulative effect is to build a minefield of politeness norms that are most unintelligible to people with the least social ties to the educated classes--and those norms don't even guarantee better treatment of anyone, just more euphemism treadmill taboos. — PolitiTweet.org

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I say this as someone who tries to use language with sensitivity and deference to reasonable requests, but even as someone who watches these things closely, I'm surprised all the time at some dustup or other about a word that I didn't even know bothered anyone. — PolitiTweet.org

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That's because most of these efforts to control language will not succeed, especially as they proliferate so much that no one can keep track of them all even if they wanted to do so, which many people don't. — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm in favor of norms against making fun of people for a disability or mental illness. But IMHO treating lots of common words as if they're actually signs of disrespect, when users aren't at all using them disrespectfully, will just make more people feel disrespected. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @eyeandoe: This point could perhaps be better stated by saying that "true artists" are typically fiercely independent, idiosyncratic, an… — PolitiTweet.org

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Gatekeeping boosters is yet another inappropriate public health community excess. Any adult who wants a fourth dose should be able to get one. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Noahpinion: If you haven't read this story yet, you should read it. https://t.co/wyJOT6ujmJ — PolitiTweet.org

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@henryfarrell Well in any case we don't disagree about that. — PolitiTweet.org

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@henryfarrell But her point is that we--which is to say, a faction people right now--has created and invoke an ahistorical version of white people, in contrast to the actual historical version. I don't think you two would actually disagree on that point — PolitiTweet.org

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@EricMGarcia I understand that Eric. Nevertheless, numerous choices in the article and numerous aspects of the controversy are interesting even to many of us who fully understand the basics. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lizzywol That verse was crazy, I def would have guessed that or That's My Bitch on Watch the Throne for a post-Big Pimpin lyric controversy — PolitiTweet.org

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@johnrambin I agree in general but I don't think Beyonce was making fun of the disabled community. — PolitiTweet.org

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And the passive voice here is just perfect. https://t.co/51vCaF1ovn — PolitiTweet.org

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For example: https://t.co/yDqmO9tgy9 — PolitiTweet.org

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I want a whole sociology thesis on this article and controversy. — PolitiTweet.org

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@henryfarrell The writer is critiquing attitudes today and specifically says that they are ahistorical. — PolitiTweet.org

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@darrelzeh That is...not a claim that the reader makes. — PolitiTweet.org

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@henryfarrell The claim in that is rather narrow and not contradicted in any way I can see by the relevant history and sociology––the dying Irish laborer is in fact less responsible than Cecil Rhodes for European colonialism! I'm also unclear on how your ethnic background bears on this? — PolitiTweet.org

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@olgakhazan Don't know why but swimming is the kind of exercise that results in me falling asleep the easiest. Also, blue light filter on glasses or screen if you don't already have it — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/xTDg7CWfUb — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @katrosenfield: good morning! I wrote a review of Graciela Mochofsky’s new book, THE PROPHET OF THE ANDES, for the New York Times https:… — PolitiTweet.org

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An excerpt from a reader email that's worth your while https://t.co/x9NK9xasNy https://t.co/nGaA4RwBzb — PolitiTweet.org

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@trizzlor @gpurcell How would you decide which races it's okay to discriminate against? — PolitiTweet.org

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@trizzlor @gpurcell The SAT is a perfectly useful measure of what it measures, but there's no law that says we must conduct higher education by grouping people with like verbal and math ability at the same institutions. Instead we could have, say, an honor's track. — PolitiTweet.org

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That is to say, the *we must use race as a factor* ACLU argument comes with the unspoken and implicit *in order to continue the current regime of selectivity as determined by current admissions metrics* — PolitiTweet.org

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While a bit orthogonal to the usual debate on this subject, it's interesting to think about how (say) admitting students in the top twenty percent of their high school class by lottery could conceivably achieve more racial diversity than now without racial discrimination. — PolitiTweet.org

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@shadihamid Don't feel bad, I went to Catholic school for 13 years and I still don't understand it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JeffreyASachs @PhilWMagness @lukthomp @nhannahjones I have no objection to NHJ getting money and the pain for the university that comes with it. Can you explain why you believe the problem to have been rooted in insufficient training and how you think training more people will solve what went wrong here? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JeffreyASachs @PhilWMagness @lukthomp @nhannahjones It may be that some of the trustees should be held accountable. But again, if so, I see no reason why increasing the administrative budget is necessary. — PolitiTweet.org