Conor Friedersdorf

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@Alesis_Turner @chrislhayes @JohnHMcWhorter To be clearer, you might think of the land acknowledgments as the religious part of this and the centering of skin color as the woke racism part. — PolitiTweet.org

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@chrislhayes @JohnHMcWhorter Land acknowledgments are a discussion in their own right, but I was actually referring to everyone announcing their race. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @CHSommers Because by treating skin color as one of the most salient traits about the speakers it seems like a deliberate step away from judging people on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. — PolitiTweet.org

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The evidence for the @JohnHMcWhorter thesis grows stronger by the day. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Aje08473588 The Republican Party is a complicated coalition of conservatives, libertarians, and authoritarians. The Democratic Party has lots of authoritarians in it, too. — PolitiTweet.org

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I do that think speed cameras are less prone to abuses, compared to cops, (and less prone to causing rear-end collisions due to mis-callibration) than red light cameras, though they can still be abused. — PolitiTweet.org

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@counterpunkt @radleybalko I'd prefer unarmed traffic enforcement that seldom even interacts with the driver. — PolitiTweet.org

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No surprise that I'm with @radleybalko here, in part because the private companies that supply red light cameras are often donors to politicians in the cities that adopt them, and I've seen the pressure to maximize revenue rather than public safety. — PolitiTweet.org

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I see that traffic stop discourse has returned, so re-upping, End Needless Interactions With Police Officers During Traffic Stops https://t.co/MjQhnNjjL2 — PolitiTweet.org

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@Aje08473588 Who do you think was more authoritarian, the French Revolutionaries who cut people's heads off with guillotines or the conservative philosopher Edmund Burke who criticized them? — PolitiTweet.org

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@Aje08473588 No it isn't https://t.co/0D2pZbsLl9 Conservatives and authoritarians have distinct motivations — PolitiTweet.org

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@Aje08473588 Out of curiosity, do you think laws that prevent me from ingesting heroin or selling one of my kidneys are authoritarian? — PolitiTweet.org

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@Aje08473588 Some who oppose a portion do so for authoritarian reasons. Others oppose it because they believe human life begins in utero and that it is wrong to kill a human life. If you can't grant that most basic tenet of the debate there's no point in discussing it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Aje08473588 *neatly, not nearly — PolitiTweet.org

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@Aje08473588 Abortion is not an issue that nearly divided conservatives and liberals. It divides libertarians, for goodness sakes. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Aje08473588 You are aware that many women are conservatives, right? — PolitiTweet.org

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@Aje08473588 No it isn't https://t.co/0D2pZbsLl9 — PolitiTweet.org

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@SarahGrynpas @rasmansa Here are my actual claims https://t.co/p3ZGjr46a4 — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa Don't come in to the mentions of someone with OmniAmericans in their bio, who recommends Racecraft and wants to literally abolish race, and treat me like I think anything other than that race is a pernicious construct that should be abolished. You've been here too long for this — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa If instead we emphasize that we are all the same regardless of our skin color and that we should be judged instead by the content of our character, unlike progressive identitarians, there will be less mothering on the basis of race — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa It's not a euphemism. The whole point is that who authoritarians regard as an other is malleable. If, like progressive identitarians, we treat whiteness or phenotypes that map onto the social construction of race as highly salient, they are more likely to other accordingly — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Nate_Cohn: I said this to a few people on the phone so it may be worth adding publicly too: from the standpoint of electoral implicatio… — PolitiTweet.org

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@emilycrockett "America needs to face all the ugliest parts of its history––and to reject racism and racial essentialism now too, whether it comes from Donald Trump style bigotry or Robin DiAngelo and the identitarian left. Trump is the bigger problem, but that doesn't excuse left excesses." — PolitiTweet.org

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Democrats should be able to validate the concerns of parents like this one as well as the concerns of parents who want, say, American slavery and genocide taught, not obscured. It isn't a difficult needle to thread, it just takes accepting that *parents like this are numerous* — PolitiTweet.org

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@PrimeNewYork Pretty high when their pet issue is as popular at Taibbi's here — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @HistoryBoomer: Matthew Yglesias—back in May—talking about the crazy being taught to teachers and school administrators around the count… — PolitiTweet.org

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@GlennMorin10 Well except Stacy Abrams to be fair — PolitiTweet.org

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Angry Republicans and Democrats in my inbox: *How can you spend any time criticizing the most wrongheaded actions of people on the fringes of my coalition when the most wrongheaded actions of people on the fringes of the other coalition are so frightening?* — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @davidminpdx: Judge vacates conviction, releases man who served 17 years of a 50-year sentence for murder after Baltimore District Attor… — PolitiTweet.org

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@emilybazelon No. — PolitiTweet.org