Conor Friedersdorf

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@ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn But we do tell new reporters that they shouldn't try to write like Tom Wolfe, because some approaches scale better than others. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn In my experience, some people who use such lessons clearly don't intend to make others feel guilty and some clearly do intend that. If everyone has your awareness and sophistication on this subject we'd be better off than we are. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn Again, I'm not doubting that you handle the subject with care and sophistication. I have seen many people who don't, and that specific worksheet doesn't make me more confident in the quality of lessons based on it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn I'm saying that if schools are going to teach the concept of privilege as useful it would be better to teach the concept generally and include discussion of race than to teach only about race — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn Is the actual worksheet posted anywhere? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn I'm not saying *you* are using it that way. I'm saying I see it used that way more often than not and have no faith that a large school system will implement it in curriculum without using it that way. You *aren't* using it that way I agree. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn It does center height above all other attributes that advantage or disadvantage basketball players and raise unanswered questions about the nature of the advantage — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn I agree. Best case, there is stuff you can learn from the framework and other intents than guilt. My concerns are how frequently privilege is hurled as a pejorative in discourse, how reliably such lessons generate backlash, and their tendency to creep into race essentialism — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn What's a specific thing that they understand better with privilege framing than the framing James suggested? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @CuriousIamblue @donmoyn I wish you'd articulate what you believe the purpose of such lessons is directly rather than Socratically. I'm curious what value you think that they add given how frequent and widespread the backlash to them is. — PolitiTweet.org

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@PamelaParesky Yep. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Fergalmc Ever declining? How's your standard of living versus someone in 1910, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, and 80? — PolitiTweet.org

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Perspective: if the fruits of liberalism fill you with boredom and ennui you don't have to destroy things with populist right or populist left extremists, there are other ways to amuse yourself. https://t.co/4G2p1TbAOH — PolitiTweet.org

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She really carried the team. https://t.co/UrgSiqUnI3 — PolitiTweet.org

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How broken is the SoCal housing market? Check out the least expensive house in this video. Then tell everyone: FFS, build more, taller, everywhere! https://t.co/ii0hduWU0F — PolitiTweet.org

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@ericowensdc @ThomasHoufek @troyh It's not too late to make the choice to write news articles about the substance of controversies instead of the meta question of whether something is CRT — PolitiTweet.org

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@ericowensdc @ThomasHoufek @troyh The name is an issue because the name that was chosen is a preexisting thing, not a blank slate — PolitiTweet.org

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@ericowensdc My point is that the newspaper article and the school should discuss *that* not whether or not the worksheet "is CRT." Litigate the substance of the matter, not the label! — PolitiTweet.org

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@BlueHose1000 I'm not saying it is or that it isn't. I'm saying *that* is what we should be discussing, not whether it "is CRT" or not. — PolitiTweet.org

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This article is about a teacher in Missouri getting fired for using a "how racially privileged are you?" quiz in class. https://t.co/cV5FFjR45g And even here, when a specific document is before us, the matter is *still* framed as "Is it Critical Race Theory?" So absurd. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AdrienneLaF: This week @JeffreyGoldberg and @AnneApplebaum traveled to Kyiv and interviewed Volodymyr Zelensky. He told them: 1. He… — PolitiTweet.org

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How the mighty have fallen https://t.co/1WwfnIuUYe — PolitiTweet.org

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Hoppy IPAs : 2022 craft breweries Dave Matthews : 1999 liberal arts colleges — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: The Ukrainians sinking the Moskva is cool. But it is also increasing my level of belief in @cdbrose's argument that our… — PolitiTweet.org

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Also fascinating how little the same people are concerned by TikTok's ownership — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JamesSurowiecki: The book may well be terrible. But pulling a published book because of the race of the author - which is what happened… — PolitiTweet.org

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@AdamSerwer Machiattio right near Grand Central in NYC is a place you should visit if ever passing through — PolitiTweet.org

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Based on the media and social media, what do you think Black adults in the United States rate as the most important issue(s) facing the community that they live in? Here is what new survey data shows: https://t.co/l79PfnREkm — PolitiTweet.org

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Do you understand Nazi Germany to have been a place characterized by and bad because of... loosened private sector speech restrictions? — PolitiTweet.org

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Our elected leaders are too old, continued: https://t.co/fDVph1wKhp https://t.co/FHuG4rddf8 — PolitiTweet.org