Conor Friedersdorf

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@mcbyrne https://t.co/CCvFcnF3tO — PolitiTweet.org

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@mcbyrne https://t.co/eVNGBGtkR9 — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffreyASachs It's different in that it helps to persuade a marginalized group that someone who doesn't hate them does in fact hate them — PolitiTweet.org

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By presenting J.K. Rowling as radically more hostile to trans people than anything she has ever said justifies, The Onion is surely leading some trans people to believe they are more hated by a famous author than is in fact the case. Won't that cause needless pain? — PolitiTweet.org

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@WesleyLowery @ghostofalbertm1 Yes, agree. — PolitiTweet.org

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@WesleyLowery @ghostofalbertm1 If you said *one clear line between journalism and activism is that journalists are not permitted to withhold facts that jeopardize their desired political outcome* I'd agree. Not sure if you think that or not. — PolitiTweet.org

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@WesleyLowery @ghostofalbertm1 I think that theoretically you can be engaged in both at once if you meet the higher standards of journalism but that the letter objecting to the Times coverage does not meet that journalistic bar. Not sure if that's what these signatories are saying — PolitiTweet.org

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@WesleyLowery @ghostofalbertm1 I think the way to think about it is that journalism requires some things that activism doesn't and if you want to be a journalist who does activism you have to meet the higher bar, doing only activism that is intellectually honest and not withholding inconvenient facts — PolitiTweet.org

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The line to me is that journalists are obligated to be intellectually honest. — PolitiTweet.org

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When you falsely characterize a letter as *defending a right to be transphobic* it seems to me that you mislead trans people who don't check the details into the false belief that the signatories are hostile to them, making those people bear a cost for your rhetorical inflation — PolitiTweet.org

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(Note this is an old piece and not, as I initially thought, pegged to current goings on.) — PolitiTweet.org

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At all points on the political spectrum, there are some people who find it so hard to tolerate diversity and difference that, when confronted with it, they descend into insults. For example https://t.co/prKCKYw3jx — PolitiTweet.org

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@KatyMontgomerie @c_p1985 What are those multiple times in history in your view? — PolitiTweet.org

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@AlisonSomin @chadpekron Are you sure you mean butterfly? — PolitiTweet.org

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Well garnished. https://t.co/HiyxKiBCNA — PolitiTweet.org

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The false allegations never stop, and they're credulously amplified by people who do not then delete them even when they are proved false. How many people who saw Jeet's original Tweet understand that the person who claimed to write the passage in question *did not*? — PolitiTweet.org

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@SamuelRGalloway You just made that up. It bears no resemblance to the truth. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheAtlantic: “I worry that left political discourse today takes social movements, or even just an individual who has suffered, as conve… — PolitiTweet.org

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Prof. Lloyd directed a Black-studies program, leads workshops on anti-racism, and has published books on anti-Black racism. Then a seminar that he ran for high schoolers imploded over dubious accusations of racism. We conversed about the implications: https://t.co/RFfLATy19a — PolitiTweet.org

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@tandyyyyyyyyy @prof_rev @JoanaPerec @Dreciojr @BalkanFalcon1 @ChuckCallesto Wouldn't you say that a college that refused to admit black students as a segregationist policy was engaged in institutional racism? — PolitiTweet.org

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This is one example of what I was talking about. The assertion here -- that "only" people with *a desire to oppress* value respectful disagreement -- is false and gives some people an impression that more strangers desire to oppress them than is the case, which ill serves them. — PolitiTweet.org

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@contrary1un You don't think persuading someone of a falsehood can cause them harm? — PolitiTweet.org

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A truth I wish everyone from Fox News to left Twitter activists would grasp and internalize: If you repeatedly tell a person that they are hated by people *who do not in fact hate them*, and that causes the person to feel anxious or depressed, *you* have caused that person harm. — PolitiTweet.org

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@froomkin @jonathanchait @MarkHarrisNYC You say that Chait's defense was "reflexive." What evidence do you have for that assertion? — PolitiTweet.org

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To me this would be a thornier question if the advocacy group met rather than fell well short of journalistic standards, e.g. in attacking Emily Bazelon while failing to include hugely relevant context about the wording at issue. — PolitiTweet.org

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To me this would be a hornier question if the advocacy group critique was scrupulously fair. But in this case it fell well short of journalistic standards, for example, failing to include hugely relevant context in its misleading attack on Emily Bazelon. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ChuckCallesto Chuck, a local newspaper reported the incident, which is how you know about it. As for the national press, it is "silent" on every incident of schoolyard bullying. Do you think that's inappropriate? — PolitiTweet.org

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A penetrating critique of the letter. — PolitiTweet.org

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@loosebricks Empty character assassination seems to be your default mode. People hate it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@CliffWilksBooth @notelpmeTy_A A contrarian? — PolitiTweet.org