Conor Friedersdorf

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@NavinPokala @TheAtlantic I may! — PolitiTweet.org

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The actually woke position is to fight for free speech protections to be enforced, knowing that insofar as they are undermined/degraded minorities will be disproportionately harmed. Too many DEI offices use their power to reduce diversity, perpetrate inequity, & urge exclusion. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ebruenig Undeniably correct position — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheAtlantic: In today's edition of Up For Debate, @conor64 shares reader submissions about how the perceived level crime in their neigh… — PolitiTweet.org

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@johnshuntington The mechanism is *not* to police free speech, it is to hold administrators accountable to free speech protections when their coercive actions violate them — PolitiTweet.org

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@johnshuntington Perhaps a mechanism to punish administrators who violate free speech rights will improve the situation for future antiwar protesters — PolitiTweet.org

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@johnshuntington I personally was very concerned about antiwar protesters circa 2003 — PolitiTweet.org

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In this thread I'd like to hear your ideas: what's the best way to hold accountable college administrators and DEI staff who violate laws or policies that protect free speech/expression on campus? — PolitiTweet.org

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@GoldwagNathan What about this do you consider at odds with anything I've written in the past or a shift in my worldview? — PolitiTweet.org

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@VenerableHomo @Popehat It's worse than that though. Georgetown isn't committed to only punishing speech that runs afoul of those legal standards. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Popehat @VenerableHomo (e.g. professionalism standards) beyond illegal conduct Georgetown is compelled to do something about. I'll send you some Georgetown examples beyond Shapiro via email that illustrate this. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Popehat @VenerableHomo (And more importantly, it doesn't clarify for Georgetown faculty what speech will be investigated and punished, because Georgetown repeatedly investigates and/or punished speech that is clearly not legal harassment, as well as explicitly gesturing toward standards — PolitiTweet.org

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@Popehat @VenerableHomo But articulating that legal standard is nonresponsive to the question that I posed — PolitiTweet.org

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@Popehat To the examples Shapiro gave in the WSJ and that other faculty members are now thinking about, I think administrators should say *of course all those things would be protected by our free speech policy* — PolitiTweet.org

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@Popehat No, I'm suggesting that some faculty are confused about whether various specific statements would be investigated by Georgetown administrators, that responding to those hypotheticals would add clarity, and that re-articulating the legal standard does not add clarity. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AnthonyMKreis This isn't a call for faculty to police the speech of administrators, it is a call for them to punish the actions--abusive investigations, suspensions, and sanctions--of administrators. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JeffreyGoldberg: "DEI offices and the deans who supervise them have taken on a dubious enterprise: enforcing leftist speech norms most… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Randy1116 Great much appreciated — PolitiTweet.org

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@Randy1116 Would be curious to know and ponder what you disagreed with if you want to share — PolitiTweet.org

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Georgetown has clear free speech protections in place. Administrators and diversity bureaucrats keep violating them. With this latest example, a remedy for these rights violations is overdue. Give faculty the ability to discipline and fire DEI admins https://t.co/2fWS34r0ot — PolitiTweet.org

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@Randy1116 Do you mean Ilya Shapiro? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @hilzoy: She threw away her position in leadership and, in all likelihood, her political career because she was unwilling to accept an a… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DavidAFrench: One of the great gifts you can give yourself and others is refusing to believe that you must agree with a person to like… — PolitiTweet.org

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@katewillett Would you be in favor of restricting the construction of new comedy clubs? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @David_Boaz: The Loving and Obergefell decisions are part of our continuing effort to extend the promises of the Declaration of Independ… — PolitiTweet.org

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You've changed both your religious and political views over time and of course regard your current views to be superior. Looking back, do you think that your younger self had lesser freedom of speech and worship rights or the same even though you were wrong? — PolitiTweet.org

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@twm3823 Mexican food! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @culturaltutor: There is only one Kunsthaus Graz, and a few thousand similar buildings. But there are hundreds of millions of polystyre… — PolitiTweet.org

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Having traveled relatively extensively in Italy I can assure you that the United States is much, much better at hotel shower enclosures that keep water from splashing all over the bathroom. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NateSilver538: To some extent what's weird is that Democrats are going through names that failed in the past, and/or would replicate th… — PolitiTweet.org