Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@ijbailey @XBillups @BeatCalledBros @CuriousIamblue @DerekPederson3 @Sebastian_Hols @JamesSurowiecki @MerkinMuffley5 @CathyYoung63 @donmoyn I agree that it was wrong. I don't think high school teachers have free speech or academic freedom rights that allow them to use any worksheet they want in their classrooms if the principal or school board thinks it's pedagogically bad. Similarly, if a teacher — PolitiTweet.org

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@XBillups @BeatCalledBros @CuriousIamblue @DerekPederson3 @Sebastian_Hols @ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @MerkinMuffley5 @CathyYoung63 @donmoyn I agree that the teacher seemed to be operating in good faith. And I oppose firing her. I disagree that everyone who opposes the privilege framework doesn't want to teach the truth about history — PolitiTweet.org

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@XBillups @BeatCalledBros @CuriousIamblue @DerekPederson3 @Sebastian_Hols @ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @MerkinMuffley5 @CathyYoung63 @donmoyn Neither of those actually. — PolitiTweet.org

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@XBillups @Sebastian_Hols @DerekPederson3 @CuriousIamblue @BeatCalledBros @ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @MerkinMuffley5 @CathyYoung63 @donmoyn I'm not being sarcastic. I'm alluding to the fact that the intersection of race and class and race and gender complicates the picture of reality that you'd get if you only looked at police brutality through the lens of race. — PolitiTweet.org

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@XBillups @BeatCalledBros @CuriousIamblue @DerekPederson3 @Sebastian_Hols @ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki… https://t.co/08BLf6f6XZ — PolitiTweet.org

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@XBillups @Sebastian_Hols @DerekPederson3 @CuriousIamblue @BeatCalledBros @ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @MerkinMuffley5 @CathyYoung63 @donmoyn You missed an opportunity to think intersectionally. — PolitiTweet.org

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@XBillups @BeatCalledBros @CuriousIamblue @DerekPederson3 @Sebastian_Hols @ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki… https://t.co/Qrv19jES2l — PolitiTweet.org

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@XBillups @BeatCalledBros @CuriousIamblue @DerekPederson3 @Sebastian_Hols @ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @MerkinMuffley5 @CathyYoung63 @donmoyn That contested ideological assumptions are inextricably baked into the concept. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DKroesslhuber No, the excess death rate in 2020 and 2021 paint a clear picture. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @charlescwcooke: Again, the debt can’t be “canceled” because it has already been issued and spent. By “canceled,” Jayapal means that the… — PolitiTweet.org

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"I find that a 4 month acceleration to a vaccine rollout in August of 2020 was achievable and would have saved between 130 and 350 thousand lives over the next two years of the pandemic." https://t.co/oisBuz9ZtC — PolitiTweet.org

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@MerkinMuffley5 @CuriousIamblue @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @ijbailey @donmoyn I'd guess that, just as previous eras of men were used as canon fodder without much thought, the relative disregard for the well being of the incarcerated is inextricable from the fact that 90 percent are men, but I'm open to evidence that my guess is wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JonahDispatch @WorldsMostHumb1 @NastyCanasta06 Wikipedia: "The most prolific modern serial killer is arguably Dr. Harold Shipman, with 218 probable murders and possibly as many as 250." Murder She Wrote: 264 episodes. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MerkinMuffley5 @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @ijbailey @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn No. Everyone agrees racism is bad. The privilege framework is a very particular take. One can easily teach *racism is bad* without it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MerkinMuffley5 @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @ijbailey @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn What I'm getting at is that disagreements about the nature of that inequality and best way to respond to it is similarly inextricable from opposition to privilege lessons crafted by a tiny part of the ideological spectrum with their particular answers embedded in the lessons — PolitiTweet.org

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@MerkinMuffley5 @CuriousIamblue @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @ijbailey @donmoyn A better example is prison rape, wherein society still treats the widespread rape of men confined by the state as a punchline. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MerkinMuffley5 @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @ijbailey @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn So the idea is that teaching about privilege isn't just about understanding reality but is rather inseparable from a political project to correct for unfair outcomes? — PolitiTweet.org

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@MerkinMuffley5 @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @ijbailey @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn Wait, if men are more statistically likely to kill police as a group, and cops prejudge me, an individual man, as more dangerous on that basis, even though I in fact pose no danger to them, wouldn't that be me being subject to an inaccurate stereotype that put me in more danger? — PolitiTweet.org

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I am with my grandparents and I am learning new things I previously misunderstood about Murder She Wrote. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @CathyYoung63 @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn I'd like to see this fleshed out a bit more. What is it specifically that makes it a good idea to examine something through a privilege framework? — PolitiTweet.org

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@MerkinMuffley5 @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @ijbailey @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn So as you see it a disparity only bears on privilege if bias is the cause of the disparity? Because Isaac was saying a 7 footer on the basketball floor is a beneficiary of privilege. I wonder if you two disagree or I'm missing something — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn The ways in which Americans, or white people, are privileged are complicated and contested, and different people who use the general formulation often mean different things by it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MerkinMuffley5 @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @ijbailey @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn I'm not sure that I follow. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Lakers: https://t.co/fnbJKevpRS — PolitiTweet.org

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@MerkinMuffley5 @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @ijbailey @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn Merkin, I have a question for you. Men are killed by police at many times the rate of women. The gender gap dwarfs the racial disproportion. Do you think we should teach about that as an example of female privilege? To be clear, I don't, but I wonder what your answer is and why? — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias @eigenrobot Plus all the best ones these days are in Japan and Norway. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn I already acknowledged that we don't know anything about that particular teacher from the worksheet. If we're talking about this subject generally, I think it's fair to remark on it if every such worksheet you've ever seen has glaring flaws. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn I agree with that. I also think we need a conversation about how we should teach race in America that parents feel they are participating in so that whatever different communities decide is seen as an outcome of deliberative democracy rather than an imposition from the academy — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn Sure I agree that lots of individual teachers are being smeared unfairly. But that isn't what I'm doing. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn I think it's awful that teacher was fired. I agree we don't know how the lesson went. I think that worksheet is flawed. And I think that if most parents favor a different approach to teaching about race that's a legitimate preference. There are different ways to do that well. — PolitiTweet.org