Conor Friedersdorf

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@HamasakiLaw @adamjohnsonNYC What sort of thoughts are you looking for? — PolitiTweet.org

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Honestly this may be the least bad option: these people just continuing to sing We Are the World until JFK Jr. arrives. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @Noahpinion @mattyglesias I'm saying that choosing 1776 or 1865 or 1965 as the symbolic founding is to center something good as the foundation, while choosing 1619 or Hiroshima or the first act of genocide in the Americas is to center something bad as the foundation. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @Noahpinion @mattyglesias If someone wanted to characterize the moment the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima the true symbolic founding what would you conclude about the difference between your project and theirs? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @Noahpinion @mattyglesias The purpose is truth telling. Nite I said "more accurate." — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @Noahpinion @mattyglesias I was specific on that point here https://t.co/fh6JjqFhfV — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @Noahpinion @mattyglesias and that more measured assessments and framings that grapple with the good and bad are both more accurate and less off-putting to most people — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @Noahpinion @mattyglesias when you make these sweeping and extreme statements that cast America, or the NYT, as symbolically defined by white supremacy more than anything else, it's flattening and ahistorical and alienating in a kind of reverse version of conservative whitewashing and ignoring the ugly — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @Noahpinion @mattyglesias The 1619 Project's architect once likened the New York Times to a slave master's house and her role their as dismantling that house. That strikes me as overly harsh in the way Noah is talking about, albeit with regard to the NYT rather than America. I think his point is, — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @Noahpinion @mattyglesias The point is that it treated 1619 as the symbolic "true founding" not that it was a literal claim, whatever that would mean. Many of us instead believe 1776 was the true symbolic founding in addition to being the literal one. If you would like another example I can provide one: — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @Noahpinion @mattyglesias Sure. But sometimes, as with 1619, people want to say something rather extreme, like that 1619 was America's true founding, and then to pretend that they didn't say any such thing when called upon to defend the assertion against pushback. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @Noahpinion @mattyglesias Well, he says "in general." I guess I'd say that the overwhelming message I get from progressives about America and its history is *you underestimate how bad it is, and it's time for us to confront its white supremacy, colonialism, and patriarchy in an overdue reckoning.* — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @Noahpinion @mattyglesias Which part specifically do you regard as a caricature? — PolitiTweet.org

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The Yale Law students claim that administrators were aggressively coercing them to endorse allegations that were false. — PolitiTweet.org

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Thoughtful and interesting: — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NYMag: The prevalence of laughable race malarkey in progressive spaces isn’t one of the left’s biggest problems. But it is among its mo… — PolitiTweet.org

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Now that's a gutsy dunk for a game. https://t.co/xcuTj3htwb — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @radsburg: @conor64 Great Listen about the “euphemism treadmill” from the excellent @JohnHMcWhorter https://t.co/t5DzbYF4dh — PolitiTweet.org

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The thing is that if you teleported it wouldn't be *you* at the other end — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: You can’t begrudge doctors their right to have a self-interested trade association, but the ease with which language-cent… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cvaldary: Beware the counter-dependency trap: It is the trap where your identity becomes gradually dependent on countering other's. As… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JeffreyGoldberg: Happy birthday to our beloved @CaitlinPacific, from her colleagues and admirers @TheAtlantic. And if you want to give… — PolitiTweet.org

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You know something has gone wrong in your church when... — PolitiTweet.org

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Can we ease off the "history says" formulation, along with "according to science" and "Neoliberalism wants" and "because patriarchy" and "experts:"? https://t.co/FXNC23O8fI — PolitiTweet.org

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@docMJP https://t.co/Xgw3rM1ep4 — PolitiTweet.org

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@NewLiberalsPod What's a good illustration of "beneficial"? — PolitiTweet.org

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This seems like a classic euphemism treadmill situation to me, rather than one where diabetic/person with diabetes are substantively different, but I'm curious to hear what others think. — PolitiTweet.org

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Lots of doctors and med students have written agreeing with my most recent article on the AMA and AAMC guide to language. Here is the most common disagreement: (1/2) https://t.co/wBcN57CDzz — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JeffreyGoldberg: "One wonders if the AMA and the AAMC grasp how many patients of all races and socioeconomic groups (never mind doctors… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ErbeleMd For example? — PolitiTweet.org