Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@Calvin_Lescault You're right that the OP didn't directly claim anything about origin, I read into it too much. Not sure what I am trying not to be wrong about though? — PolitiTweet.org

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@emilyvdw Do you think the right is using it to mean the same thing as it meant originally or something fundamentally different? If the former, it seems weird to characterize it as a branding mechanism. (I agree btw about its muddyness) — PolitiTweet.org

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@BattenkillMusic I'm not understanding your criticism — PolitiTweet.org

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The right-wing did not create the concept of cancel culture. It was first used descriptively and pejoratively in left-leaning online and cultural spaces https://t.co/wSxTQY0Phy — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

Bad climate news: https://t.co/nkWNYwmH6W — PolitiTweet.org

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@BattenkillMusic It is not undeniable. I deny it! — PolitiTweet.org

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Link https://t.co/fe6KFB8Uza — PolitiTweet.org

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Mike Pence has spoken at dozens of colleges. There is zero evidence of any student ever being endangered as a result. But UVA's student newspaper editorializes that he must be kept off campus because "speech that threatens the lives of those on Grounds is unjustifiable." — PolitiTweet.org

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@Timberati We definitely have data on an explosion in the size of administrations — PolitiTweet.org

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Very curious about the faculty reaction to this Chronicle of Higher Education piece, *Why Are Scholars Such Snitches?* "The university bureaucracy has been hijacked for political grudge matches and personal vendettas." https://t.co/IwVvKGKg7p — PolitiTweet.org

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If you were *sure* that Ivermectin was an effective Covid treatment, this would be a good time to revisit your thought process to figure out what went wrong https://t.co/zQcpmxanoH — PolitiTweet.org

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Today's better understand the Xennials cultural artificact: https://t.co/oC3op4Hz6A — PolitiTweet.org

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This is shameful from Ted Cruz. We're trying to pick a SCOTUS justice, not a head of library purchasing. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: Shifting patterns of demand mean it’s more important than ever to have flexible land use so homes can go where people wan… — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/6mRNQWtOeB This is more like it. Now get on it, federal government, you've got lives to save. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

As a writer I don't worry about being cancelled. I worry about the explosion of sources who tell me they won't be quoted or sometimes even interviewed on matters of import for fear of being cancelled, the cost to my readers, and the related problems for deliberative democracy. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey I haven't insisted that we all adopt the same label. My argument is that folks like you reject *all the labels* and that seems counterproductive to me. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey I don't understand why you're willing to use the phrase, "people being unfairly targeted for wrong-speak," but unwilling to grant that there is any legitimate term that we could use when we mean "people being unfairly targeted for wrong-speak" — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey Which one do I prefer? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey If instead of "cancel culture" we used the term "people being unfairly targeted for wrong-speak" would that be okay? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @CathyYoung63 You don't think cancel culture is a legitimate term, so what is your name for the "issue" that has affected you? — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@ijbailey I keep asking what term you suggest that they use, but you'll never offer any term at all that you would regard as legitimate. If you want them to stop using terms you consider demeaning, what non-demeaning term should they substitute? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey If every time they try to express themselves they are dismissed for using a term with flaws--and offered no alternative whatsoever--how will that improve conversation? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey Many people believe there is a problem that transcends individual cases. Maybe those people are right or maybe they are wrong. Either way, surely decent conversations with them requires that they have language to express their belief. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey I didn't suggest you should use cancel culture. I don't like it much either. What alternative would you suggest? Surely it would be useful to have a name for a phenomenon that, by your account, has been happening forever! — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey If 10 more incidents like this occurred in the next couple months and you wanted to refer to them collectively what would be the best way to do so? — PolitiTweet.org

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Concerts I wish I'd been at https://t.co/HvSXIaNb9K — PolitiTweet.org

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By praising Vladimir Putin's Ukraine strategy as brilliant before it proved to be an utter debacle I suspect that Donald Trump increased the number of GOP primary opponents who could plausibly beat him. — PolitiTweet.org

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New @continetti book — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @justinamash: Happy to see President Biden nominate someone to the Supreme Court who holds more than a few truly liberal views. Compare… — PolitiTweet.org