Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@JeffreyASachs @jbouie Obviously the attempt should be to get everything correct every time. Everyone falls short of the ideal sometimes, especially in Twitter conversations as opposed to reported and edited work. IMHO, Yascha gets far closer to it than most. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbouie @JeffreyASachs have agreed, but instead you made a sweeping claim by applying a one strike standard for "reactionary" that you'd never apply to more ideologically allied journalists who reflexively complain on Twitter all the time — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbouie @JeffreyASachs Here is what we disagree about: your general characterization of Yascha as a reactionary; and your replying to a tweet of his that does exhibit thought by declaring there is none here. Had you made careful, accurate claims about the importance of restraint on Twitter I may well — PolitiTweet.org

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@barrydeutsch No. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbouie @JeffreyASachs There is both thought and consideration *in that tweet where he lays out the additional inquiry he undertook*. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ByDavidMurphy You said *from the perspective of those who are actually minority races* as if there is one perspective, but of course there are many different perspectives held by people encompassed by that designation. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @hughhewitt @nytimes Well, who decides depends on the elected officials in a given place, obviously. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @hughhewitt @nytimes Your concerns are on my radar so often that a newspaper reporter wrote an article about us discussing them. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @hughhewitt @nytimes In history and social studies we must spend time figuring out how to teach hotly contested issues. In math, there is no need to do that. So instead of wasting time and needlessly dividing people, we should just teach the math with word problems that no one objects to — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @hughhewitt @nytimes The ones on either side of any contested question you embed in math problems. For example, if Governor DeSantis presided over a problem that read, *Abortion kills x many babies in Florida. If that could be reduced by half how many lives would be saved?* — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @hughhewitt @nytimes Yes, which is why I would like everyone to attempt to do so without injecting examples that are highly likely to polarize parents and students. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ByDavidMurphy I trust you mean "perspectives" — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @hughhewitt @nytimes Now do the version of this where Republicans are writing the word problems. Still like the idea? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @hughhewitt @nytimes Injecting a highly emotional, perennially contested area of social science into word problems seems likely to me to distract from rather than enhance the ability of the typical middle or high school student to learn algebra. Disagree? — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@ijbailey @hughhewitt @nytimes No, because the thing at issue here is whether teachers should use math lessons "to explore social justice," not whether the word problems should avoid gender stereotypes, which everyone is fine with except the straw man you continue to waste our time on. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @hughhewitt @nytimes No, I am approaching this as though they ought to be neutral, not as though they always have been. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @hughhewitt @nytimes I haven't answered it because it isn't a claim that I made or that anyone has made, it's a non sequitur that you injected and a waste of our time. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @hughhewitt @nytimes Do you understand how using math class to teach other goods, like patriotism, or counterterrorism, or the risks of teen sex, would politicize math class? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @hughhewitt @nytimes The problem is that no one agrees on what social justice entails, so this politicizes math lessons, something that's objectionable in itself and likely to distract from rather than enhance the actual learning of the math, which is the purpose of math class. — PolitiTweet.org

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@XochitltheG @nxthompson @TheAtlantic Can't wait to read! — PolitiTweet.org

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@IleneJide You seem to be unfamiliar with the book by that name? — PolitiTweet.org

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Last time I saw this Moose it was Detroit in '68 and he told me, "All large mammals meet the same fate: cynical and drunk and boring someone in some elementary school." — PolitiTweet.org

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For children of the Cold War, the moose was a stalwart ally against Communism, but now that Boris and Natasha are no longer existential threats they've got to break through glass just to get a hearing in front of the kids. — PolitiTweet.org

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@siebznet Wow, you win the contest for understanding this tweet the least well of anyone. — PolitiTweet.org

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@1jeffnelson @IWWWallace @limroid Well I am definitely against banning books but I also think it would be wildly inappropriate to assign 1st graders a text that describes the rape of enslaved people or the massacres of Ghengis Khan. — PolitiTweet.org

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Often times, those of us engaged in dialogic communication modes are misunderstood by observers who presume a monologic model of public discourse. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pfiddy I would love if the book Racecraft was taught. I am against teaching the things that book critiques. — PolitiTweet.org

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@IWWWallace @limroid @1jeffnelson We should teach that at an age appropriate time. I don't know what that is. Not Kindergarten. Before 12th grade. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

No, that would be authoritarian, violate the 1st Amendment, and impinge on the free exchange of ideas. Do you not see the flagrant hypocrisy of this juxtaposed with your other rhetoric @DennisPrager? — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

I am a piece of thin bent wire and I can help you format this letter. — PolitiTweet.org