Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@edcu @vituperativeerb I don't think they should be illegal. Commercial boycotts are lawful, if that's what you mean by "legitimate." I just think SF's are dumb, in part because, to protest what one party in a state does, they punish everyone in that state. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@edcu @vituperativeerb So you'll only apologize for falsely characterizing what I have published if I acknowledge a separate thing? That doesn't seem fair. Are you aware that targeted minorities in those states are themselves negatively affected by SF style boycotts? — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@edcu @vituperativeerb Will you apologize when I ink to the articles I have written on red states that you, in your sanctimonious ignorance, are unaware of? — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@JoshTheJuggles @zorangecats @ijbailey @CathyYoung63 @NGrossman81 There is certainly a lot of rhetorical confusion. When I say that I have criticism of CRT, I mean what Henry Louis Gates wrote in his excellent critique, but lots of people on the left insist that I mean I don't want to teach the true history of this country. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@edcu @vituperativeerb What double standard are you referring to? — PolitiTweet.org

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@JoshTheJuggles @zorangecats @ijbailey @CathyYoung63 @NGrossman81 I think when people reference CRT they are often talking about very different things and that we need a name to refer to DiAngelo style thinking and diversity training and left race essentialism, which does exist out there. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@JoshTheJuggles @zorangecats @ijbailey @CathyYoung63 @NGrossman81 I think he thinks, and I think, that there is an ascendant faction that insists people identify with whiteness — PolitiTweet.org

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New @joedjoedonnelly book on SoCal https://t.co/bHc43UKVBz — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@JoshTheJuggles @zorangecats @ijbailey @CathyYoung63 @NGrossman81 https://t.co/cKH7hAJuMI — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@dirtylib666 @Muay_Khaoboy I strongly suspect that you are tolerant of intolerant people everyday and I don't think that you thereby undermine tolerance. — PolitiTweet.org

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@the_house_dawg https://t.co/wNNjRSD4Jb — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@TaylorLorenz I swear SoCal has the highest ratio of cosmetic dentists to real dentists in the world. An attempted upsell at every appointment! — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@the_house_dawg You say Texas is a "dystopian Christian nightmare" only because you're too privileged to see it through the eyes of people from the dozens of countries where countless people would immigrate there if they could. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@the_house_dawg Okay, I will start to list things in Texas I think we should tolerate: Texas Monthly magazine, the University of Texas, the live music scene in Austin, the Viet-Cajun offerings in Houston, wintertime transfers at DFW to avoid Chicago, the Route 66 kitsch of Amarillo, etc. — PolitiTweet.org

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@vituperativeerb Any history or a particular kind? — PolitiTweet.org

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@the_house_dawg Do you personally refuse to travel to Texas? — PolitiTweet.org

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When people give this response I wonder if they too refuse to travel to or buy products from most of the United States, or if not, if they therefore regard themselves as "tolerating intolerance." — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

Old San Francisco: famous for being unusually tolerant. New San Francisco: can't tolerate most of America. https://t.co/Zpggv7kJ3l — PolitiTweet.org

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@DanFriedman81 @sullydish That doesn't excuse torturing him in violation of the Constitution, US law, and basic morality — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

RT @NGrossman81: I've criticized Tulsi Gabbard, and glad to see prominent politicians point out that what she's saying is false Russian pro… — PolitiTweet.org

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Suspending habeus corpus to own the war dissenters. — PolitiTweet.org

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Hypothesis: under-informed, irresponsible virtue signalling, the conflation of military action with seriousness, and shortsighted failure to think through causal chains beyond step one are general features of broadcast media that just manifest in esp dangerous ways during wartime — PolitiTweet.org

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As Hong Kong pursued its zero Covid strategy it failed to do the most important pandemic countermeasure available: vaccinate a high percentage of the elderly with an effective vaccine. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

Just when I thought my "don't make paperclips" AI was totally harmless... — PolitiTweet.org

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Reviving the Wilsonian tradition in wartime authoritarianism — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MattWelch: "They used to arrest people for doing stuff like this," Whoopi laments. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

There's a divide with one camp conceiving of the job as giving the audience the facts and arguments they'll need to reach their own conclusions and another conceiving of it as conveying to the audience the correct conclusion. Sorta like the rule by the demos or by experts divide. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

This land is yours to build on if you build a single family home but if you want to build a 10 story apartment building with energy-efficient everything on the same plot our environmental laws will stop you from doing that. #CEQA — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: The war in Ukraine is further intensifying the preexisting trend toward de-globalization. It’s all happening for a reason… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Neoavatara Why? — PolitiTweet.org