Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@ijbailey Chilling speech and cancellation are not the same. See Jon Rauch for standards for cancelation — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey One difference is that Jesse doesn't want him punished by his employer. — PolitiTweet.org

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@beth4158 If your question is *who is voting to overturn Roe vs. Wade* and your answer is straight white dudes then you haven't looked very closely at the Supreme Court. More broadly, look at opinion polls on abortion broken down by sex. — PolitiTweet.org

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@beth4158 It's a bad idea to normalize sweeping pejorative generalizations about people based on their race, gender, or sexual orientation. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rdthorsett @ijbailey What a strange statement. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey I think being selective in friendships is healthy and that losing friends over politics is unhealthy, even granting that extreme cases might mean exceptions to the general rule. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ajrowebot @ijbailey @aaronsibarium @SamAdlerBell Yes, I agree. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rinanpakkala @ijbailey @aaronsibarium @SamAdlerBell But if someone at CAP tweeted that (they didn't) would it be similar in your eyes? — PolitiTweet.org

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@rinanpakkala @ijbailey @aaronsibarium @SamAdlerBell I agree that random Twitter user and relatively prominent activist are different along one dimension, I want to know if that's the sort of thing we're talking about on the content dimension — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @aaronsibarium @SamAdlerBell So would you consider this an example of similarly misleading rhetoric or not an example, just to clarify the terms here? https://t.co/xlZciWsMLh — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey I will do it for $5000! — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @aaronsibarium @SamAdlerBell As I understand it, we're talking about using inflammatory language that falls short of scrupulous accuracy for political purposes. So I am looking for examples of left activists doing that. Correct or incorrect? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @aaronsibarium @SamAdlerBell I'm not running interference for anyone. I object to his tactics regardless of whether he is the only one doing them or 1000 other activists are. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @aaronsibarium @SamAdlerBell Okay. To avoid talking past one another could we specify the thing I'm looking for? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @aaronsibarium @SamAdlerBell I think you left out a word there, but if I am reading you right, the point is that one can object to Rufo's tactics and also notice that they are not unique to him. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @aaronsibarium @SamAdlerBell Would it be inconvenient for you if Aaron was right that his tactics aren't unique? — PolitiTweet.org

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It would be ***so easy*** to do better than the Democratic Party. Instead, the Republican Party is doing this: — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MattWelch: I can recommend a book from the Before Times. https://t.co/yLyMsNN6Mb — PolitiTweet.org

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The good news is that a relatively small adjustment in attitude can make the world and many of its institutions much better. That's achievable. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey (Avoided forming personal relationships, that is.) — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey It's easier to have never lost a friend over politics when you're relatively selective about who you form friendships with. I'm sure I've avoided doing so over stuff people have said that didn't align with my values. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey Well "left or avoided" is a bit different. — PolitiTweet.org

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"A Long Georgia Night" https://t.co/JbsQf0bzFO — PolitiTweet.org

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In addition to mass murder and barbarous war crimes and brutal, manipulative authoritarianism, *he sat problematically.* — PolitiTweet.org

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What a weird media moment we live in https://t.co/X55yi3gUum — PolitiTweet.org

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Many of you hate this man. Still, it honestly amazes me that even more of you don't see him as anomalously villainous. Do you, secretly, but you won't say so bc you don't want to admit (to us or yourself) that you're the sort who backs a villain? Or are you that undiscerning? — PolitiTweet.org

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@W96Emily Within BLM there were factions that pushed for universalized solutions (e.g. Campaign Zero) and factions that opposed them for doing so; I think what you're describing was internal to the BLM coalition in addition to what was going on externally. — PolitiTweet.org

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This would seem to have hugely consequential public policy implications that ought to rate much, much higher in what we're paying attention to (h/t @MargRev of course) https://t.co/aTX2958QdE — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattWelch @longdrivesouth @CaitlinPacific @joedjoedonnelly Trying to troll or earnestly written? https://t.co/SxVqZ8otMd — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @ijbailey This seems like a huge difference in our respective experiences of the world that I hadn't known about before. — PolitiTweet.org