Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@HereForTheLink Online pile-ons, circles of people kicking someone on the ground, and other such exercises in the social infliction of cruelty wouldn't exist but for some people who take glee in them. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Popehat @JasonKuznicki Your restraint is appreciated :) — PolitiTweet.org

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@Popehat @JasonKuznicki No I was talking about one earlier today, no longer trending thankfully. These considered reactions take time! — PolitiTweet.org

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@Popehat @JasonKuznicki Lol, I don't know if this is a humorous non sequitur or if he is actually trending and I prefer not to find out. — PolitiTweet.org

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For those with a desire to publicly inflict cruelty on others, the Twitter trending algorithm functions as an identifier of socially acceptable targets. But deliberately inflicting cruelty on others is always a failure. — PolitiTweet.org

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A German word for being upset by something you saw out of context, learning the context, and still blaming the person who was taken out of context rather than the people who stripped the context away, because otherwise you'd have to confront your part in an unfair pile-on. — PolitiTweet.org

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@abdallah_fayyad @HeerJeet @BrendanNyhan I am sure that the context utterly changes the meaning, and notice that everyone dunking on the Tweet omits the context. — PolitiTweet.org

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@HeerJeet @BrendanNyhan That is a response to a Tweet that said the number was in the thousands. The "only" is relative to that, not an attempt to say it's too few to worry about. Stripped of the context of the earlier Tweet it seems like she's saying something very different. Your tweet misleads. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BrodyOaks I don't think it has obliterated independents. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mcbyrne Is there a piece on that you recommend? — PolitiTweet.org

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This is not a good sign https://t.co/68SakjvbRm — PolitiTweet.org

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@jackshafer People arrested for drunk driving and solicitation. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jackshafer City prosecutors, heads of firefighter union locals, sundry water district board members, etc. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RaeMartorano @shawnigan03 Let me ask a different way. If you think that the words, stripped of context, are hurtful, then doesn't it follow that the people spreading the words stripped of their context are hurting others? That seems to follow but you don't seem mad at them. Why, if they're hurting others? — PolitiTweet.org

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@RaeMartorano @shawnigan03 You wouldn't be beside yourself unless you saw that wording, which is to say, unless people stripping it from its context in a misleading way deliberately amplified it beyond the one person in the initial conversation. So why don't you blame the amplifiers? — PolitiTweet.org

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@RaeMartorano @shawnigan03 Yes, you could phrase it better, if you're being hyper-vigilant about how unscrupulous people might take your words out of context, giving a pretext to sadists to mete out cruelty to you, but we can't all be hyper-vigilant about that all the time. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cafreiman: https://t.co/KW7kka96NK — PolitiTweet.org

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@shawnigan03 If you say "thousands of babies have died from Covid" and I reply "no only 12 have" that is not taking anything away from the tragedy and horror of those deaths, just conveying that the number is much much fewer than the original claim. — PolitiTweet.org

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@yashar That is a response to a Tweet that said the number was in the thousands. The "only" is relative to that, not an attempt to say it's too few to worry about. Stripped of the context of the earlier Tweet it seems like she's saying something very different than what she's saying. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rkylesmith Congrats on the new gig, enjoyed the old one — PolitiTweet.org

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Twentieth Century Motor Company vibes here. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trevor Noah on Lizzo and the people who use offense-taking as an excuse to be jerks to others https://t.co/7LKtwvULFl — PolitiTweet.org

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.@asymmetricinfo on the "shut up, bigot" approach to public discourse: "What further surprises are in store if progressives can’t figure out how to talk to the majority of the country that disagrees with them?" https://t.co/mX9rq3twUe — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LaurelRosenhall: Historians have asked California to amend the state travel ban because it inhibits academic research by public univers… — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/fucLsXTKkp https://t.co/nLQ9yjVXgH — PolitiTweet.org

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@mffwww @bgbrainonbrad @realmissrobin If your standard is *extremists cited their words to try to advance an extremist agenda, therefore their words are problematic* you have to be consistent and bite the bullet when extremists cite rhetoric like yours to try to advance their agenda. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mffwww @bgbrainonbrad Insofar as *denying the existence of* is happening though, I agree that's bad. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mffwww @bgbrainonbrad someone to say, in effect, *trans people are fabricating the thing they tell us they are feeling*, but that wasn't my understanding of the claim in the Hawley exchange or many other exchanges (not necessarily all, I grant) where *denying the existence of* is claimed. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mffwww @bgbrainonbrad I would never say "oh they're just cross-dressers who are lying to us about their internal sense of gender," and while I have no idea what Hawley might say, that is not what he said in the exchange that began this conversation. So I agree with you that it would be wrongheaded for — PolitiTweet.org

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@mffwww @bgbrainonbrad but (thread two) the behavior in thread one is different from the behavior that was on display when you said, and the beginning of this convo, "Why do you think trans people owe you a public debate, on your terms, about their right to exist?" That is to say, — PolitiTweet.org