Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@adamdavidson @page88 @davidshor What about the cases in Jon Ronson's book So You've Been Publicly Shamed, all long preceding Shor and having recognizable pattern similarities? — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamdavidson @page88 @davidshor You seemed to just assert this part and I find it off. After 9/11, in the Dixie Chicks and Bill Maher era of what we now call "cancellations" were white people unaffected? — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamdavidson @page88 @davidshor One question to ask yourself here is, did the treatment of David Shor come out of nowhere-an improvisation of his colleagues-or were they following a pattern or script that they had seen elsewhere? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey What do you see as the examples of dissent it has squashed? — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamdavidson On definition, this is the work you're looking for https://t.co/By1caTaXDY That said, there are better terms. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EconTalker @adamdavidson I agree that *the effects of the culture* are important and there is good survey data on that. — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamdavidson Okay. One more question. Do you think the book *So You've Been Publicly Shamed* persuasively demonstrated a social-media enabled culture of public shaming, with analogs to bygone spikes of public shaming, that inflicted excessive or undeserved punishments on people? — PolitiTweet.org

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@garethstack If someone has a better example I would love to see it! — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey Exposure to viewpoint diversity would assist the academic in strengthening her thesis and eliminating flawed analysis in response to constructive challenges. — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamdavidson If I wrote an article with 5 examples of people being terminated at different elite institutions for being trans would you consider that a problem worth attention and push back or too insignificant to merit concern in the national press? — PolitiTweet.org

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This thread is an illustration of the importance of the Heterodox Academy mission. — PolitiTweet.org

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I tried to find out what this was about and UCLA did answer my email but I still don't entirely understand the backstory: https://t.co/RRzUTrxIU0 — PolitiTweet.org

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@danhauge Indeed, it's very close to the conclusion of the essay — PolitiTweet.org

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@skinnylatte She didn't claim to be cancelled. She explained that for years she has been self-censoring rather than expressing her beliefs. Do you think people who have different beliefs than yours should self-censor because you think they are wrong? — PolitiTweet.org

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I've heard this too. Some people want to bully others, & if you acculturate them to believe that bullying is fine so long as it's done in service of x-whether x is nationalism or patriotism or Godliness or white supremacy or social justice-they will use the pretext you gave them — PolitiTweet.org

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@kphextwin @goldnecklace2 Presuming misanthropic spite is not justified. — PolitiTweet.org

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@VictoriaDahl We agree that powerful people should be accountable for awful abuses of power, and I have never objected to a case where that has happened. — PolitiTweet.org

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@VictoriaDahl expand the number of people who feel able to engage in civic discourse under their own names rather than concluding there is no problem because things have always been like this. I want things to be better than ever before. — PolitiTweet.org

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@VictoriaDahl Well, I can express myself, and lots of readers wrote me all the time and say, *I wish I could say this publicly, but between you and me...* And then they say interesting stuff that is neither racist nor sexist. So long as that remains true I'll keep fighting for norms that — PolitiTweet.org

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@drvolts @tyler_bryant If so you might try Porto Venere instead of Cinque Terre (though if Covid is still stopping cruise ships it might be an uncommonly good time for CT) — PolitiTweet.org

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@VictoriaDahl Some of those consequences are unjust. I am fighting for positive change. You are telling people to accept the unjust status quo because it's always been that way. — PolitiTweet.org

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@VictoriaDahl The unfortunate effect is that lots of people self-censor out of civic discourse while a privileged few, like you and I, can express ourselves under our own name on matters of public controversy. I am advocating for norms that would expand that privilege more broadly. — PolitiTweet.org

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@satumma The norms I was raised under very much encouraged criticizing others for racism, among other ills, and rightly so. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @goldnecklace2: @conor64 I’m a PR professional. Watching public health people try to berate and insult people into compliance has been t… — PolitiTweet.org

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@VictoriaDahl Yes, that's why so many average people hate cancel culture--they know that lots of bosses will fire them at the faintest hint of public pressure, so they avoid expressing themselves on social media at all. — PolitiTweet.org

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@VictoriaDahl @TheElliotMess Those two articles will complicate your presently incomplete notion of what I believe, and I wonder also if you agree with those defenses of progressives against cancel culture. — PolitiTweet.org

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@VictoriaDahl @TheElliotMess https://t.co/3KUgRYN5JD — PolitiTweet.org

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@VictoriaDahl @TheElliotMess https://t.co/8SeXeZxSkq — PolitiTweet.org

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@VictoriaDahl I don't know what that means. — PolitiTweet.org

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@VictoriaDahl @TheElliotMess Wait, are you saying you favor a law that prevents people from being fired for their speech? — PolitiTweet.org