Conor Friedersdorf

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@NGrossman81 Weird choice of denominator — PolitiTweet.org

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@hiltzikm You might not believe that this event should have stoked a climate of fear among his colleagues that caused them to alter curriculum to the detriment of students, but having interviewed many of them, I can assure you that did happen due to how admins handled the matter. — PolitiTweet.org

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@paint771 Literally every complaint I've seen on that issue concerns the erasure of the use mention distinction and the problems that has caused, not complaints about the taboo on use, which everyone is fine with. — PolitiTweet.org

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@paint771 There are many different kinds of diversity training, not one kind. And I'm not sure why what conservatives bitch about should be relevant to my view of what is best. — PolitiTweet.org

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A model wouldn't be perfect at distinguishing good from bad. Laws aren't. But they're better than the alternative: life-altering punishments meted out depending on mercurial mood-shifts of the biggest zealots or opportunists who can coalesce into a mob in a given moment. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jessesingal Traurigkeitleergrenze — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffreyASachs @SollenbergerRC I agree. The headline number could misleadingly cause people to underestimate the problem. — PolitiTweet.org

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@sivavaid @SollenbergerRC Yes people have indeed been unjustly attacking academics in ways that chill their speech (not mere complaining or criticism) for centuries. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffreyASachs @SollenbergerRC Well, verifying that takes an extra step of examining the details, but the database is a hugely useful jumping off point for that — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffreyASachs @SollenbergerRC I think it's bad when faculty are investigated for speech that, even if they did utter it, would be protected by academic freedom or the law — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffreyASachs @SollenbergerRC Useless *for what*? Not useless for knowing about different controversies around the country — PolitiTweet.org

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@vituperativeerb I engage critical constantly. — PolitiTweet.org

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Winning Time has yet to consult me on insights I gleaned while attending the Summer 1993 Byron Scott Basketball Camp, but I'm here if you need me. — PolitiTweet.org

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I recall the blogosphere getting as heated as anything on Twitter, but unless memory fails me, which is possible, there were a lot fewer assertions that people were writing things they didn't themselves actually believe. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NancyRomm: Are we going to Kurt Rambis portrayed in HBO's "Winning Time" and if so, who plays Rambis? cc: @MattWelch @bendreyfuss @cono… — PolitiTweet.org

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@SollenbergerRC There are a few people who are so unusually smart that they can get away with being unusually uncharitable without losing touch with reality, but you are not one of those people. If you were as charitable as the average person you would be wrong a lot less often. — PolitiTweet.org

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@gdiygtbk @vituperativeerb I have been concerned about this issue since roughly 1999. The idea that I've taken recent bait is nonsense. — PolitiTweet.org

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@vituperativeerb I think many journalists are making fundamental mistakes every day. Welcome to life in a diverse, pluralistic democracy. — PolitiTweet.org

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I still don't get why other journalists get so angry at the claim that academics are targeted from multiple directions by investigations and pileons that chill free inquiry. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SollenbergerRC Many in that database are at public colleges, so it is the government, and the self-evident flaw in your method is illustrated by how absurd it would be to judge the Red Scare with your *what percentage of the population was fired* nonsense — PolitiTweet.org

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@SollenbergerRC Now do the Red Scare. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SollenbergerRC These are, more particularly, attempts that reached the attention of an outside organization that acted upon them. And every one of those attempts likely chilled speech at the relevant institutions. If you don't think that's a problem, I'm glad a majority of the public disagrees — PolitiTweet.org

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Examples with database. This is just in academia. And it comes from multiple directions. It is harming higher education. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: For now I guess I'll just say that this incident @Noahpinion wrote about from a while back significantly increased my lev… — PolitiTweet.org

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On the right, many believe traditional values are eroded over time by the left. Without commenting on that, I notice times in history when traditional values were undermined by traditionalists backing ruinous wars, and I expect Putin's traditionalism to be undermined by his war. — PolitiTweet.org

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They're really testing us lately. ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 — PolitiTweet.org

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I was hoping that, with help from the West's sudden surfeit of plastic straws, Zelenskyy could start employing a classic "I drink your milkshake" gambit. — PolitiTweet.org

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Paul Simon is 80. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jessesingal I only ever hear of this guy secondhand, are we talking about the same dude as the Fast and Furious villain? — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/vWXM9bmDE2 — PolitiTweet.org