Conor Friedersdorf

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@the_house_dawg Of course, and indeed they are! — PolitiTweet.org

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We ought to teach kids that race is a pernicious construct that should never determine how they judge individuals, and insofar as they can grasp that, even in simplified a form, they're not too young to be taught about race. At *no age* should they be taught Racecraft or racism. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NewfangledDad Where do I "cringe" and how does any of this "correct injustice"? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ASFleischman @OrinKerr Only the tungsten cube — PolitiTweet.org

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@LucyStag @chrislhayes @zeynep @JohnHMcWhorter Well, for example, the Twitter account @wokal_distance is smart and perspicacious and focused on that issue. (Of course the person behind it may and probably does have many other political commitments.) — PolitiTweet.org

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@zeynep @chrislhayes @JohnHMcWhorter In other words, "put up or shut up." — PolitiTweet.org

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@chrislhayes @zeynep @JohnHMcWhorter 2) people whose core project is combatting woke excesses who do it with intellectual honest and some sense of proportion. 3) People whose core project is combatting woke excesses who do it like Tucker Carlson. I prefer and try to practice 1, I am fine with 2, and I despise 3. — PolitiTweet.org

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@chrislhayes @zeynep @JohnHMcWhorter I think we can distinguish three groups. 1) You have critics of woke excess like McWhorter and Loury and Kennedy and others who've done a lot of other work advocating for advancing justice in lots of other ways, because that is part of their larger project or core projects. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DamonLinker @cwarzel I for one suggest we begin all corporate meetings going forward with a statement on the important of liberty and freedom and the evil of rent-seeking, which has done so much harm. — PolitiTweet.org

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@chrislhayes @zeynep @JohnHMcWhorter And of course we should talk more discretely when we can--not all good things go together, and a faction can be right about some things and wrong about others. — PolitiTweet.org

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@chrislhayes @zeynep @JohnHMcWhorter Me too, though I do think at least part of this discourse is in fact a divide between people who believe *corporate and academic DEI culture* are doing that and people who believe they are ineffective and counterproductive. — PolitiTweet.org

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@chrislhayes @zeynep @JohnHMcWhorter Yes, and in all this, describing visually important things for the visually impaired is not something I find objectionable at all. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cwarzel I think your insight about power is partially correct but that you're not really following it where it leads. Most people are supportive of closed captioning and unsupportive of this because only the latter seems like coerced virtue signalling. Accessibility is great & important — PolitiTweet.org

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@zeynep @chrislhayes @JohnHMcWhorter For some, social justice is about acts, but for others, faith alone is sufficient. — PolitiTweet.org

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@evandawson @chrislhayes @robbysoave @jbarro @JohnHMcWhorter Ah got it, that makes more sense! Because I was thinking before, *when I listen to radio shows is it relevant to me what the speaker looks like*? But of course *the rest of the audience* has a visual on PBS. And of course for many TV programs it is highly relevant. I think — PolitiTweet.org

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@evandawson @chrislhayes @robbysoave @jbarro @JohnHMcWhorter Wait, are you saying that you switched to describing your physical appearances on NPR? — PolitiTweet.org

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@chrislhayes @evandawson @robbysoave @jbarro @JohnHMcWhorter I guess I'd want to talk to visually impaired people and think about that. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cwarzel This does kind of remind me of military flyovers to start football games, which I am also against — PolitiTweet.org

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@evandawson @robbysoave @jbarro @chrislhayes @JohnHMcWhorter I suspect that a lot of people are uncomfortable giving physical descriptions of themselves. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbarro @tdibble @chrislhayes @JohnHMcWhorter The failure to see that is such a big part of the culture wars right now. — PolitiTweet.org

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@evandawson @BigDictaEnergy @ijbailey @CHSommers I am not sure but I assume that is the intent too. — PolitiTweet.org

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@KristerJohnson @HeerJeet I assume so. And that doesn't alter my critique. — PolitiTweet.org

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@michaelbd I do see the parallels but I don't think it's mocking. — PolitiTweet.org

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@HeerJeet I don't need a deal of any sort to favor living up to treaty obligations. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mkieval @VeryConfucious @jbarro @chrislhayes @JohnHMcWhorter Sparing the blind from colorblindness so they aren't complicit in the white supremacy pyramid? — PolitiTweet.org

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@HeerJeet Again, I basically agree with Josh's critique of land acknowledgments, but I'm a bit surprised that everyone looks at that clip and assumes I was objecting to the land acknowledgment instead of the much more substantively objectionable foregrounding of race — PolitiTweet.org

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@TylerSSummers @joshtpm @chrislhayes @JohnHMcWhorter These are good questions, and I don't mean to diminish them by replying that you just start typing in Word and Clippy appears and says "Are you trying to write a land acknowledgment?" — PolitiTweet.org

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@BigDictaEnergy @Alesis_Turner @chrislhayes @JohnHMcWhorter If another religion was compelling others to be trained in its tenets as a condition of employment I rather think he would — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbarro @chrislhayes @JohnHMcWhorter If we're talking norms, God help large swaths of the world if global corporate culture starts to begin all meetings with *historically the x people have a special claim to this land* — PolitiTweet.org

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@BigDictaEnergy @ijbailey @CHSommers That the skin color is among the most salient characteristics of the speakers. — PolitiTweet.org