Conor Friedersdorf

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@TrustNobis @ijbailey @bernybelvedere @CathyYoung63 @hpmacd https://t.co/BGrJ23ng5M — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @TrustNobis @bernybelvedere @CathyYoung63 @hpmacd I think you're analytically incorrect on this one, ignoring the clear and vital distinguishing characteristics, which I articulated before and you haven't persuasively countered. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @TrustNobis @bernybelvedere @CathyYoung63 @hpmacd Nothing has changed since then, though these situations seem rather different in kind and degree! Regardless, my position on this matter is that pointing out substantive absurdity in published work is fine, cruel mockery isn't, and a bright line between the two is tricky — PolitiTweet.org

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What a different world we would live in if the inflection of NY Times headlines influenced the world commensurate with the importance they are treated with on Twitter. — PolitiTweet.org

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@bernybelvedere @ijbailey @CathyYoung63 @hpmacd I just can't even fathom that happening here, like, what would it even look like? It's absurd — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @bernybelvedere @CathyYoung63 @hpmacd If you want to object to mockery that's fine but I think it's clear Cathy isn't trying to get this person fired or disciplined or shunned and that there is no chance of any of that happening over that old column so I don't see how it is cancel culture. — PolitiTweet.org

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@thomaschattwill If you just go back and read Eli Saslow archives he often hits it out of the park and is never less than good — PolitiTweet.org

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You've all forgotten your James Q. Wilson. It isn't just crime rates, it's disorder that bothers people. — PolitiTweet.org

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@shuler_lauren @ishapiro @TuckerCarlson @FoxNews I would have happily broken the news :) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ZaidJilani: No group polled supports ending gifted and talented programs in NYC public schools https://t.co/YX7gHB7C9U https://t.co/jQo… — PolitiTweet.org

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@writerlyai_bot Can you give an example? — PolitiTweet.org

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Insofar as I can find, there is no publicly known instance in higher education of a DEI administrator being disciplined for violating the 1st Amendment or their institution's freedom or speech or academic freedom policy. Am I missing any incident of that kind? — PolitiTweet.org

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@mariachong @ijbailey @bayesianfox @rasmansa It was a reference to this https://t.co/yPiIHxY5Lp — PolitiTweet.org

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@mariachong @ijbailey @bayesianfox @rasmansa I did not suggest a binary, but rather that truth is a better lodestar for universities than social justice. And I added something that acknowledges that truth advances social justice properly construed. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @bayesianfox @rasmansa I think they are in tension with one another because people keep invoking one to attack the other. — PolitiTweet.org

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From my Inbox... https://t.co/I8ZfppFckN — PolitiTweet.org

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@PeterMoskos I suspect they assumed he was lying and that, had they believed him and shown urgency, there were several potential solutions that would not have risked the lives of the officers. I do get the reluctance to simply strip and swim out to the stranger fleeing police. — PolitiTweet.org

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@PeterMoskos Throw him a rope or a flotation device. — PolitiTweet.org

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Pick your telos: truth or social justice. (And know that to get more of the latter you're actually better off picking the former.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Confirming my priors that my basic civil liberties would not be safe in a worker cooperative after a socialist revolution. https://t.co/eTJVAxKV9F — PolitiTweet.org

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NIMBYs impoverish and imisserate. Developers build more places where people can live. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AdrienneLaF: "Their story is lifted from my fading Normandy notebook, which covers the landing of every Omaha company." A classic acco… — PolitiTweet.org

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Sometimes ostensibly wrongheaded speech is met with criticism. Other times it is met with punishment. In your view, when (if ever) is the latter more desirable? General rules only, no specific examples. — PolitiTweet.org

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Yep. Even people who try very hard to meet a "never be cruel" standard may occasionally fail, but justifying cruelty against an ideological outgroup is a fool's path. No human possesses the clarity and self-control to mete out deliberate cruelty justly. Excess is guaranteed. — PolitiTweet.org

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@htown_Joe Not punishment! Just happens to be among the issues I care most about https://t.co/1yhiE3FWz2 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheFIREorg: 3/ #FreeSpeechFreePeople https://t.co/KsKAyXG3dV — PolitiTweet.org

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Characteristically good @asymmetricinfo https://t.co/GkTvFnMI7R — PolitiTweet.org

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@htown_Joe @flipforchips @yfeldblum Too bad they didn't build more housing there for you. — PolitiTweet.org

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@htown_Joe @johnstodder @yfeldblum Denying developers the ability to build more housing people want to buy isn't a human right either. It's a selfish and immoral choice. — PolitiTweet.org

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@htown_Joe @flipforchips @yfeldblum I invite you to spend more time in Tokyo or for that matter Manhattan! — PolitiTweet.org