Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@sremruggs @alexsimonelis I was wondering the same thing. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey I think/hope this means Russian commercial airliners and private jets can't fly to the U.S. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's important to draw a distinction between hostility to the Russian regime and its actions, on one hand, & hostility to anyone of Russian nationality, on the other. Hostility to Russian nationals in the west should be avoided. It can't be meted out w/o harming the undeserving. — PolitiTweet.org

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@edcu @TTtheNegligible My question was about what others believe. How would I find that out by consulting science rather than other people? You seem to think that merely asking my question somehow risks harm, but I don't see how. Maybe you could explain that specifically. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SohrabAhmari: I mean this: Please pray for our president. His refusal to countenance insane escalation is a virtue and a blessing. — PolitiTweet.org

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@edcu @TTtheNegligible Aren't we all living through the way our society constructs gender? — PolitiTweet.org

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@atlemar Got it, thanks for the patient clarifications! — PolitiTweet.org

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@edcu What do you mean "their" lives? Doesn't a society's gender constructions implicate the lives of everyone in it, including you and me? — PolitiTweet.org

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@atlemar So does *correct* mean *corresponding most closely to how people are when they are born* or does it mean *corresponding most closely with what maximizes human flourishing, given that we're born with a blank gender slate*? — PolitiTweet.org

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If you're following non-American commentary on the war in Ukraine, what are the best articles you've come across? — PolitiTweet.org

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@edcu In what way does my question diminish anyone's ability to live their own lives? I have no idea what you mean by that. — PolitiTweet.org

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@atlemar So if I'm reading you right, you are confident that there *is* a correct, but not what it is? — PolitiTweet.org

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@atlemar If you think gender is socially constructed, but that current constructs are not correct, I'm unclear on what "correct" would mean? (Maybe: Facilitating more flourishing?) — PolitiTweet.org

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@roderickgraham Both of those claims make sense to me, but I'm still unclear on whether you think that, in the future world where masculinity and femininity are constructed differently, people will have different genders, or the same gender but described more or less well w different labels? — PolitiTweet.org

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@alexsimonelis Mode 1 https://t.co/P15IXVmBv3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Note: I am operating in mode 1! https://t.co/P15IXVmBv3 I don't know how you think about this, would like to understand it, and have no particular investment in the answer(s). — PolitiTweet.org

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A question about gender identity for the subset of people who believe both that 1) gender is socially constructed AND 2) that most young children know their true gender. Does it follow that you think gender *as currently socially constructed* is constructed *as it should be*? — PolitiTweet.org

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"Pausing at the Precipice" seems like wise counsel to me https://t.co/J9OcqNxlJv — PolitiTweet.org

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Damon Linker: "Where's Putin's off-ramp? How can we point him in that direction and get him moving toward it? What would make us willing to grant sanctions relief? How can we keep an incredibly tense situation from entering an escalatory spiral?" https://t.co/zrn0gfj3PG — PolitiTweet.org

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@CathyYoung63 @PoopUkraine There needs to be a word for concepts like *cancel culture* and *political correctness* that are so overwhelmingly used with a negative connotation that any attempt to define them in terms stripped of good/bad value judgments inevitably leads to analytic confusion. — PolitiTweet.org

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Many do this even in DMs! — PolitiTweet.org

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Even with ~85,000 followers, I could seldom if ever achieve change via the kinds of mode 2 tactics that harm mode 1, so it is tremendously frustrating to me that so many low follower accounts ruin Twitter for mode one people by constantly indulging their mode 2 warrior fantasies. — PolitiTweet.org

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Many of my most unpleasant or frustrating interactions on this platform occur when I am in mode 1 and getting attacked by people who erroneously perceive me to be acting not only in mode 2, but the kind of mode 2 that's deleterious to mode 1. — PolitiTweet.org

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But if a 2 tries to influence by propaganda, or wielding emotion-driven stigma, or intimidating via the implicit threat of pile-on in, spurring preference falsification or creating a chilling effect, that 2 is the enemy of 1s, making the project of 1s less possible. — PolitiTweet.org

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A person in mode one may or may not be at cross-purposes with a person in mode two depending on the latter's method of influence. For example, if a 2 seeks to influence via logical persuasion, a 1 might be glad to engage. — PolitiTweet.org

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2) *Others believe they know some or all of what's right with regard to Ukraine, and they want to influence rather than to better understand. Twitter helps them to reach others to influence with their engagement or amplification.* (One can of course engage in both mode 1 and 2) — PolitiTweet.org

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1) *Some want to better understand a complicated world. Twitter helps, exposing them to different news and viewpoints and arguments to follow and participate in. Through this informal, messy process they become better informed and gain greater clarity about their own views.* — PolitiTweet.org

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The universe of Tweets about the Ukraine conflict illuminate different ways that different people use this platform. I want to focus on two in particular: — PolitiTweet.org

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An opponent of a school choice bill explains his thinking: — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @getnickwright: QR Codes replacing paper menus as the default option at restaurants might be the single best example of a supposed techn… — PolitiTweet.org