Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

College football is getting so confusing https://t.co/jdTpA0zeaE — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ijbailey: No lies detected. Great subtle but vital mental shift. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jasonintrator @MarcBodnick @ijbailey @LJU3 @CathyYoung63 @nickfromi0wa You keep saying "panic." That's question-begging. We can discuss more but I do have to go work now. Goodnight. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @jasonintrator @MarcBodnick @LJU3 @CathyYoung63 @nickfromi0wa There was no reaction because most people on the right and left don't care about a principled defense of free speech as it manifests in the law so much as whether they can speak their minds, personally, without fear of getting fired. Even caring about both things makes us unusual — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @jasonintrator @MarcBodnick @LJU3 @CathyYoung63 @nickfromi0wa I disagree, but I have to finish editing a piece now, so this will have to wait for tomorrow! Goodnight. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @jasonintrator @MarcBodnick @LJU3 @CathyYoung63 @nickfromi0wa government policies favored by the left incentivizing excessive speech policing by private entities from college administrators to social media companies, and that some leftists urge employers to police the extramural speech of their employees, all of which most people hate. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @jasonintrator @MarcBodnick @LJU3 @CathyYoung63 @nickfromi0wa Let's not minimize the significance of the most populous state in the nation passing a law that obviously violated the Constitutional rights of its citizens. But I agree red state legislators are often worse. I also think lots of speech policing by the left is accomplished by — PolitiTweet.org

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@jasonintrator @ijbailey @MarcBodnick @LJU3 @CathyYoung63 @nickfromi0wa That you imagine red state legislators pass laws in response to NYT op-eds that annoy you does not make it so. These are social conservatives with socially conservative opposition to queer identities, not liberal feminists responding to attendant concerns. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @MarcBodnick @jasonintrator @LJU3 @CathyYoung63 @nickfromi0wa The laws being passed, which like you I lament, have nothing to do with the debate about whether to say women or "birthing people." — PolitiTweet.org

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@jasonintrator @MarcBodnick @ijbailey @LJU3 @CathyYoung63 @nickfromi0wa This is a question-begging and incorrect summary. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jasonintrator @MarcBodnick @ijbailey @LJU3 @CathyYoung63 @nickfromi0wa Oh? https://t.co/02lDfAIzjo — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @LJU3 @CathyYoung63 @nickfromi0wa @jasonintrator If you google the word erasure and survey its use in political commentary, it is almost always used to refer to things or people that are not in fact being erased. I do not know or understand why this started, but I have pondered exploring it to try to find out. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarcBodnick @jasonintrator @ijbailey @LJU3 @CathyYoung63 @nickfromi0wa Well, I agree that no one is forcing us to use this particular new language, but I also think it's clear that language policing in general is very widespread in a way that makes people anxious and angry. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jasonintrator @ijbailey @LJU3 @CathyYoung63 @nickfromi0wa It isn't, and I know of no one who says it is. The NY Times publishes op-eds on all sorts of things that aren't the biggest crisis. We're talking about this one because of the ferocious backlash it provoked from the anti-anti-woke faction. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @LJU3 @CathyYoung63 @nickfromi0wa @jasonintrator group has more political concerns--that is, they want Democrats to win, and get frustrated when the left keeps introducing new terms that are unfamiliar at best and alienating to majorities at worst, because they think it costs Democrats support or that it is inaccessible. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @LJU3 @CathyYoung63 @nickfromi0wa @jasonintrator As best I can tell, one group is, as you suggest, offended by any use of different terms, which they consider the "erasure" or "decentering" of women. A second group mostly just doesn't want to be forced to use the new term, and assumes that's where things are headed. And a third — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @LJU3 @CathyYoung63 @nickfromi0wa @jasonintrator I think there are at least three goals that different people who object to this have in mind. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbarro If the Worldle is ever Adieu I will always remember — PolitiTweet.org

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A German word for the feeling my fellow social liberals will have when Ron DeSantis beats Donald Trump in the 2024 primaries by insisting no drag queen story hour participant can ever be president. https://t.co/6TxSWrLfe0 — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey Running to dinner but if others don't screenshot other absurd passages will reengage later — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey No he goes much farther than that and says a lot of nonsense — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey Do you agree with this paragraph, for example? Is everyone writing from a perspective Froomkin rejects actually just insincere or are their actual substantive disagreements here? https://t.co/dnSr9qKojf — PolitiTweet.org

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@jduffyrice I agree with this too but note I did not say trans activists. I said activists. Many people to whom I was referring are not trans. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jduffyrice I did not disagree with your point. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jbarro: Behind paywall, I wrote about the core problem with the government response to Monkeypox -- they didn't have enough vaccine eve… — PolitiTweet.org

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Poorly reasoned but useful for understanding the holes in logic and understanding that some are falling into. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jduffyrice There's a sharp distinction between the trans community and a very online cohort of activists who falsely represent themselves as speaking for the trans community. On Twitter, much discourse is distorted by the failure to recognize that. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @katrosenfield: absolutely shameful — PolitiTweet.org

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@JohnGPettus Technically? I have no idea. In practice? Easily. — PolitiTweet.org

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I wonder what the exact ratio is from the public health community of attacks on David Leonhardt to informative guidance on 4th doses. 50 to 1? 100 to 1? — PolitiTweet.org