Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@optimist_press It isn't a deflection. It's an illustration of a flaw in the standard you set forth. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@optimist_press The difference between what you mean and what you said is an illustration of why the standard you propose is impossible to implement well in practice. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@optimist_press I don't dismiss criticism preemptively. I try to find out if the person offering it understands my ideas and has a good counter to them. I don't think you understand my ideas, and I find your articulation of your own to be incomplete. But I didn't know that going in. — PolitiTweet.org

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@optimist_press What if it promotes intolerance of something bad, like rape? — PolitiTweet.org

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@optimist_press The thing is, I think your understanding of this issue is nonsense, rooted in unearned sanctimony and a blinkered understanding of both what cultural appropriation is and whether or not it is wrong, so I am disinclined to take your advice about how I should be. — PolitiTweet.org

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@optimist_press I don't understand. If Spain started designing and selling kimonos that were very finely made and with subtle twists on the original would you think the Spanish had assimilated to Japanese culture? — PolitiTweet.org

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@optimist_press It would be difficult to write out that list given its length. — PolitiTweet.org

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@optimist_press Actually I did take a picture and praise it: https://t.co/TNEDuCq5Ch Also, I didn't say "European things" I said "things I love." — PolitiTweet.org

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@optimist_press I'm still not clear on which ideas you want banned from universities? — PolitiTweet.org

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@optimist_press ? You think that e.g. Japanese whisky is an example of assimilation? If I make sushi am I assimilating to Japanese culture? — PolitiTweet.org

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@optimist_press I don't recall that. Which ideas specifically do you want banned from universities? — PolitiTweet.org

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@optimist_press What did you find libertarian or vaguely white supremacist about my praise of Japan? — PolitiTweet.org

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@optimist_press I should have guessed this weird aggression had its roots in issues with your dad since I did nothing to provoke it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@optimist_press I love many things original to Japanese culture, too, Keith, but as you'll see in my timeline, I just drank a Japanese kolsch that caught my eye at a liquor store. Relax, dude. — PolitiTweet.org

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@optimist_press You seem to have paranoid delusions of racist intent where there is none. — PolitiTweet.org

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@optimist_press My target audience was people who appreciate Japan's takes on western products like whiskey and kolsch. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffreyASachs @studentactivism @ijbailey @JeffreyASnyder In contrast, I believe that deliberate attempts to construct rationalizations for overturning the liberal consensus tend to be exploited not only by the original developer of it but also influences other illiberal factions in the long run. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @yayitsrob: I wrote about Biden’s new plan to solve one of climate change’s toughest problems—the industrial sector, and how we make ste… — PolitiTweet.org

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@optimist_press What's wrong Keith? — PolitiTweet.org

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Everything I love that Japan has culturally appropriated has turned out wonderfully and I hope that its people culturally appropriate many more things I love so that I can enjoy their take on it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Recommended drinking: https://t.co/wFLvXeoIsm — PolitiTweet.org

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@studentactivism @ijbailey What about when the ban itself functions based on the subjective reactions of listeners? — PolitiTweet.org

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@studentactivism @ijbailey What is our disagreement as you understand it? — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki @ijbailey @studentactivism https://t.co/Hl7DtA8S36 — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki @ijbailey @studentactivism Again, everyone is talking about banning books, but that wasn't even the subject of my original tweet, which was alluding to some of the divisive concepts bills in red state legislatures, not some library controversy. For example: — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @studentactivism Some of the others can't imagine that anyone tweets for reasons other than boosting their team or denigrating the other team, as if my only motive could be absolving the right of blame, something I not only have no interest in but that is at odds with my published critiques — PolitiTweet.org

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@studentactivism @ijbailey Example: https://t.co/Hl7DtA8S36 — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @studentactivism See, I never said all my critics have the same problem, you just read something, failed to comprehend its meaning, and put forth that different claim as if I made it. But search my archive and nowhere will you find me claiming all my critics have the same problem. They don't! — PolitiTweet.org

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@clayranck https://t.co/Hl7DtA8S36 — PolitiTweet.org

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@studentactivism @ijbailey I'm not sure why you are talking about "book censorship efforts" when my original tweet was about state laws that didn't particularly focus on books, not some school library controversy. — PolitiTweet.org